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TIL during the recording of Eddy Van Halen's guitar solo for Michael Jackson's song "Beat It" the monitor speakers in the studio caught on fire.

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e0pWk TIL Despicable Me is the highest-grossing animated franchise ever, even beating Shrek.
5YM7k TIL about Jane X. Lee who, as a graduate student, discovered the Kuipler asteroid belt, together with David C. Jewitt, whom she asked for material for her PhD project and thus began the search.
nWVXB TIL people used to carve turnips for Halloween, not pumpkins
j6EJj TIL Mad World was originally by Tears For Fears and the Gary Jules version is a cover.
wolyM TIL Thomas Edison created the first ever film studio, "The black maria", which could rotate so that it could always catch the best lighting. There, they shot "The kiss" (1898) which contained the first on-screen kiss, which caused a demand for the first ever film industry censorship.