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TIL that guitar god Eddie Van Halen once did a soundtrack for a porn movie

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dDR5r TIL XMM-Newton, an X-ray space observatory launched by the ESA in 1999 tasked with investigating interstellar Xray sources, performing narrow and broadrange spectroscopy, and imaging of objects in both Xray and optical wavelengths. Funded for 2yrs, with a 10yr design life, is still in good health.
VBXMZ TIL that in 2013 baseball great Mike Piazza appeared in a production of the Miami City Ballet whose school his daughter attended. Piazza said he did this in an attempt to raise the profile of ballet among sports fans.
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