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TIL that Michael Jackson would request his wine served in diet coke cans during flights, due to being a ‘private drinker’ and not wanting his kids to see him drinking alcohol.

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x66Bo TIL that the British MI5 hired an astrologer after they learned that Hitler supposedly used astrology to influence his actions. However it was later known that the predictions of Hitler's astrologer were extremely inaccurate and Hitler himself thought of astrology as 'complete nonsense'.
rREwo TIL that there are only 22 countries in the world that Great Britain HASN'T invaded.
1akV7 TIL that in 1859, a guy released 24 rabbits for hunting into the wild in Australia, a country which had no native rabbit population then. By 1920, their population increased to 10 billion. This is the fastest spread ever recorded of any mammal.
XEEJ6 TIL John Williams has 50 Oscar nominations and 5 wins, which averages him one nomination for every three films he has composed. He also has more Oscar nominations than any other living person.
KY8LR TIL Torben and Einer Ulrich, father and grandfather of Metallica drummer Lars, were both elite level tennis players, with Einer competing in the 1924 Olympics. Einer then fled the Nazis into Sweden while Torben became a jazz musician after retiring.