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TIL that Lady Gaga's manager, without Gaga's input, denied Weird Al approval to release a parody of one of her songs on his 2011 album. After Weird Al released the song for free on YouTube, Lady Gaga heard the parody for the first time and allowed Weird Al to release it with the album.

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p8RkA TIL The deepest part of our oceans, the region from below 6000 km to the very bottom of the deepest sea trench, is known as the Hadal zone, named after Hades, the underworld of Greek mythology. More people have been to the moon than have explored the Hadal deep.
kJG5E TIL that in 1962, NASA launched the Mariner 1 spacecraft to Venus, but it missed its target by over 100,000 miles. The failure was traced back to a single misplaced hyphen in the spacecraft’s software code, showing how even the smallest errors can have enormous consequences in space missions.
NKb6 TIL All The American Flags on The Moon are Now White Because of The Intense UV Radiation From The Unfiltered Sunlight
yVV48 TIL South Korea made a remake of 12 Angry Men for their countries first jury trial.
6VoJ TIL that Carlos Hathcock, USMC in Vietnam, crawled inch by inch, 1500 yards for 72hours straight to assassinate an NVA General, narrowly escaping being bitten by a viper, and almost being stepped on by a NVA soldier. He successfully completed the mission, and escaped the same way he had entered.