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TIL the camera used to film Mary Poppins has never been successfully replicated. It's special prism could create "green screen" effects before modern green screens were invented, and is utterly unique.

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epd6L TIL Mick Fleetwood and John McVie of Fleetwood Mac play on Werewolves of London. Warren Zevon and his band wrote the song, but Jackson Browne and T Bone Burnett performed it before he did.
w8M6 TIL that not only do we see distant stars as they were thousands of years ago, but we also still experience their gravity from thousands of years ago, and not from where they are now. We even experience the pull of gravity from stars that have burned out.
kvn7 TIL there was a pirate named Black Caesar, he was an African tribal war chieftain, enslaved and escaped. He later went on to build a powerful piracy ring, where he kept a harem of over 100 women, and later served as a chief lieutenant on Blackbeard’s ship “Queen Anne’s Revenge”
xVAK1 TIL that between 1995 and 2000, hundreds of girls in the US went through estrogen therapy that often causes serious long-term effects, to prevent them from growing taller because of perceived social harms of being “too tall”
gMLgA TIL Israeli singer and actress Ofra Haza sang the song "Deliver Us" in 18 different languages for the movie "The Prince of Egypt".