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TIL Charlie Murphy interviewed for the movie CB4 by pointing a loaded 9 mm pistol at Chris Rock during the audition.

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N7obQ TIL Scientists track solar cycles by counting sunspots. A high-powered telescope might show 10 or 20 and a powerful observatory may see 50 to 100, so there is a formula for the official sunspot number, R=k (10g+s)
R7Jk4 TIL of William Buckley (1780 – 30 January 1856). He was an English convict who was transported to an Australian prison camp, escaped within 2 months, and lived in an Aboriginal community for 32 years.
78WMM TIL about Hydrokinetic energy systems, which utilize water currents. Since ocean currents are partially powered by the Moon's gravity, one can argue that we're developing Lunar Power.
vDVD TIL During WW2, a Cambridge professor accidentally dropped the entire United Kingdom supply of plutonium (10mg) onto a table. He sawed a hole around the spill and burned that bit of table, recovering 9mg from the Ashes. He was found out because he was too tired to fix the table.
mx1lP TIL Vatican City has only one restaurant and Vatican cuisine is very similar to Italian. A famous dish is "Eggplant with Parmesan of the Swiss Guards" which is a mixture containing eggplant, parmesan and spice