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TIL the lost vans in Cars (2006) are a reference to the Death Valley Germans

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M7rxb TIL that the US government no longer uses the term Unidentified Flying Object (UFO), the preferred term is Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP, which previously stood for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena), since UFOs are a source of ridicule due to their popular association with alien spacecraft
XELP6 TIL in 1961 Ronald Reagan released a spoken-word album warning against socialized medicine.
VBJK0 TIL that Fatboy Slim’s 1998 hit “The Rockafeller Skank” samples at least nine other songs. 100% of the song’s royalties are split evenly between four of the sampled artists.
4Xm05 TIL of Jackie Coogan, a child actor in the silent film era who earned millions of dollars, only to find out in his 20s that his parents spent it all on jewelry and cars. He sued and the litigation resulted in the passage of the Coogan Act, which protects child actors
ODg7 TIL: Composer Sun Ra once performed for catatonics and schizophrenics. One broke a years-long silence to ask him “Do you call that music?”