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TIL that when actor Glenn Shadix died in 2010 (who played Otho in the 1988 film ‘Beetlejuice’) the song 'Day-O’ by Harry Belafonte was played at his memorial service, a song he helped repopularize in that film’s famous dinner-party scene.

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4XNMa TIL that Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser was once awoken to a report of 2,200 incoming Soviet missiles: a false alarm due to the malfunction of a 46 cent chip
EgrV7 TIL in 2009, Stephen Hawking threw an open party for everyone, only announcing it after it was finished to ensure that only time-travelers knew about it. Unsurprisingly, no one came up.
e0vwJ TIL that the term “starboard” comes from old boats where their “board” for “steering” was on the right. This meant they always docked on the left, or “port” side. Aviation borrows from maritime; so this is why you almost always board an airplane from the left side doors.
4X4na TIL In 2013, George Clooney surprised 14 friends with 1 million dollars each. They were friends who helped him before he became famous. Some were living paycheck to paycheck at the time. He also paid for the taxes.
0w8DL TIL when Max Planck began his studies in Munich in 1874, his physics professor told him to not study physics because it was a mostly fully figured out field of science with little prospect of development and only two unsolved problems.These problems ended up being radioactivity and quantum physics.