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TIL Paper fortune tellers have 5 other names

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X0nRD TIL that the female vocals on Meat Loaf's "I'd do anything for love" were sung by Lorraine Crosby. She is not the woman in the music video and was only credited as Mrs. Loud in the album notes. She also never received any royalties since her part was recorded as supposed guide vocals.
GA1wN TIL that without thermal controls, the temperature of the international space station would soar to 250 degrees Fahrenheit while in the sun and plunge to minus 250 degrees In the shade.
rRJey TIL James Franco has a mutation on a gene that allows him to sleep for about half the time that we normally need
4kmZ6 TIL that Cloudflare (a security Internet company) use a wall of lavalamps called LavaRand to help create a totally random number to be used as seed in cryptographic algorithms
8eB7L TIL: After the Union Army routed the Confederates at the battle of Chattanooga, a Chaplain asked if the war dead should be sorted and separated by state in the cemetery. The Union general responded by saying “Mix 'em up. I'm tired of states' rights.”