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TIL Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker invaded the stage at the 1996 Brit Awards to protest Michael Jackson's performance, in which he sang surrounded by children and a rabbi

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p8Jn4 TIL about Rachele Gilmore, an understudy in the Metropolitan Opera. With only a couple hours notice, she was told she would be making her debut in Offenbach's "Les Contes Hoffman". That night she hit an A-flat above high C, breaking the record for highest note ever sung at the Met.
0pdp TIL when questioned about his terminal cancer and impending death musician, Warren Zevon stated “I just want to live long enough to see the next James Bond movie.” he achieved this goal and lived long enough to see the ironically named “Die Another Day”.
16WKX TIL that sloths only poop once a week and when they do, it can weigh up to a third of their body weight.
Ood7L TIL while filming a 170 foot waterfall in the movie Apocalypto, a cow was trying to cross upstream and went over the falls. It emerged at bottom, banging against the rocks, but after a local man swam in to calm the cow it then climbed up the bank and began eating grass as if nothing had happened.
DmOY TIL Disney has a 3 nautical mile (~3.5m) no fly zone around it; sharing a long list of military bases