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TIL rock duo Nelson changed its name to Power Tool for the soundtrack to Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure because music label Geffen Records wanted the band to make its debut with its upcoming debut album and not via a film soundtrack

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N0Jb TIL: Google successfully tested an automated car that drove 300,000 miles with only one accident, a parking lot fender bender. That occurred when a human was driving.
XWG6 TIL: The only X-files episode to carry a TV-MA rating for being very disturbing (for its time) was “Home”, about an inbred family
WpbL TIL, That a Mexican man who accidentally killed his cousin while drunk was sentenced to death by being buried with alive with the cousin whom he had killed.
0OV5 TIL that the pacemaker, fridges, WiFi and Google Maps are all Australian inventions.
WkndN TIL the dog from the TV show Lost - Vincent on the show, played by Madison - is still alive and is now 22 years old