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TIL with the success of his single Jingle Hell, Christopher Lee became the oldest musician to ever enter the billboard hot 100.

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wPN6 TIL: Eddie Murphy earned the Razzie Award for both worst actor and worst actress for his roles in “Norbit”.
4XYjN TIL in 1963 that a 21-year-old rock and roll star named Ulysses Baxter pushed a peanut up Pikes Peak mountain with his nose! He had attached a salad spoon to his nose and pushed for 8 days until he reached the summit. The craziest part is that he wasn't even the first to do this!
9YWBQ TIL that magician Harry Houdini took a year off from his performance career during WWI to promote the war effort including teaching soldiers how to get out of handcuffs.
GAVjj TIL that the world's first orbital rocket, the R-7, was also the world's first ICBM(Intercontinental Ballistic Missile).
b69RZ TIL airports renumber their runways because the magnetic pole is not fixed, and headings change slightly over time