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9YbyB TIL that Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water sounds eerily similar to Astrud Gilberto's Quiet Maria recorded in 1966
J1pWV TIL that windmills used to be used to mill grain. From the US and only think of wind turbines and energy.
kOGb4 TIL Banpo Bridge in Seoul, South Korea is the world's largest "bridge fountain". LED-lit fountains span each side of the nearly 3/4-mile-long bridge and shoot dancing rainbow-colored jets of water.
oRnY8 TIL the renowned architect Buckminster Fuller experienced an epiphany around age 32 where he felt himself suspended several feet above the ground in a white sphere of light. A voice said things like, "You think the truth. You do not have the right to eliminate yourself. You belong to the universe."
X0JR6 TIL Payload specialists are not part of the regular NASA astronaut corps, relatively unknown to the public, and often flying only single missions