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TIL the backing vocal chorus of CPL 593H in Roxy Music’s Re-Make/Re-Model refers to the number plate of a car that Bryan Ferry saw, with a pretty driver

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0kRM TIL there exists patents for a nuclear powered drill that heats up the tip of the drill to high enough temperatures to melt rocks and create a glass coated tunnel.
pY9KN TIL John C Woods, the executioner for the Nuremberg trials intentionally botched several of the executions to make them suffer. Also lied about being a hangman in Texas and Oklahoma to get the job.
xVZ4o TIL: In the 50s, scientists released a deadly virus to eliminate millions of rabbits.
kJWAd TIL the folk legend adapted into a play ‘Doctor Faustus’ was loosely based on a real alchemist/magician Johann Georg Faust
nQYP TIL that the second smallest size classification of an iceberg is called a “Bergy Bit”