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TIl that Burger King created a band named Coq Roq, recorded a 4 song LP, and planned a US tour that only fell apart because the Canadian singer had a criminal record

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xJVk TIL that Jeff Goldblum performs in a jazz show in Los Angeles almost every week. As part of the live performance, he plays piano and improvises lyrics to the theme music of “Jurassic Park.”
9YKbB TIL Queen Margrethe II of Denmark is a big Lord of the Rings fan, and under the pseudonym ‘Ingahild Grathmer’ helped to illustrate the danish version of the book
Br6W TIL that O.J. Simpson was considered for The Terminator but James Cameron “did not feel that Simpson would be believable as a killer.”
ADmOo TIL the fastest boat ever hit 318 mph, setting the water-born vehicle speed record in 1978.
vgPx TIL in 1871 William Frisbie of Bridgeport, Connecticut began the Frisbie Pie Company. Local schoolchildren made a game of tossing his empty pie plates which soon became popular with local college students. The name Frisbie was picked up by Wham-O toy company who changed it to Frisbee.