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TIL Tracy Chapman was able to debut her song "Fast Car" to over 600 million people due to Stevie Wonder losing an important hard drive needed to do his own performance,

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GYLpg TIL that the Pinkerton Detective Agency still exists and filed a law suit against the makers of Red Dead Redemption 2 for the use of their name and logo in the game.
VBJWZ TIL The Passion of the Christ is the highest grossing independent film ever made
v1O8x TIL: CBS used to add bird songs to their golf broadcasts to get rid of awkward silences until they got caught by someone watching at home who knew the bird songs belonged to birds that didn’t live in the region in which the golf tournament was being played.
OG6Oe TIL The black doomsday ship in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997,) was an actual piece of top-secret hardware built for DARPA and the US Navy by Lockheed. Sea Shadow (IX-529)
kOnbe TIL Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson was the first African American woman to earn a doctorate from MIT, and the second in the US to earn a doctorate in physics. She was also made an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2012 and awarded the National Medal of Science in 2014.