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TIL all the stars we see in the night sky are in our own Milky Way Galaxy

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rN0Oy TIL The Easter Island Statues (Moai) have bodies
j6xEp TIL Brad Fiedel's soundtrack for "The Terminator" was recorded entirely as a live performance. In the only help from an Oberheim synthesizer, he had to play while changing tempo and get them to match. This was happening while scenes were being added in post-production, according to Gale Anne Hurd.
Xv7P TIL octopi have 9 nine brains, one for each tentacle and a central one inside their head
dDM97 TIL that during the Battle of the North Cape the cruiser HMS Belfast pursued the battleship Scharnhorst away from the first engagement, risking Scharnhost's guns in order to keep a radar track to guide a second British fleet into position to sink her
lyB1 TIL that when asked what his song “American Pie” meant, Don McLean said “It means I don’t ever have to work again if I don’t want to.”