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TIL that the cinematographer for the music video of REM’s “The One I Love” was chef Alton Brown. Reportedly, between takes he would watch cooking shows and thought he could do better.

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nybP TIL Mitsubishi own around 40% of the world’s bluefin tuna market and apparently has a huge reserve of frozen tuna they’re sitting on for when they go extinct.
MRyK TIL that according to English law, the “Right to light” states that the owner of a building with windows that have received natural daylight for 20 years or more is entitled to forbid any construction or other obstruction that would deprive him or her of that illumination.
Gp0G TIL there’s a park with a statue of John Lennon in La Havana where a security guard is paid to sit next to the statue and put his glasses on and off if requested because they always got stolen / vandalized.
krW TIL that H.G. Wells wrote the classic Sci-Fi novels; The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds in the space of just four years.
AXow TIL of Jack Churchill - He’s the only man with a confirmed Longbow kill in WWII. He carried a longbow, broadsword, and bagpipes. He played the pipes before battles, and survived the war.