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TIL the label who signed Casiopea (famous jazz fusion band) also signed The Stalin (famous punk rock band). Always though Alfa Records was only City Pop for some reason.

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VMPWQ TIL - Walt Disney negotiated the rights to build a nuclear reactor in 1967, after hiring a German physicist, Heinz Haber, to lay the groundwork for research into nuclear energy, which would be used to power Disneyland.
AN784 TIL that Moctesuma Esparza, one of the organizers of the “Chicano Blowouts” of 1968, went on to work for “Sesame Street” and helped produce the first bilingual national show in the U.S., “Villa Alegre”, on PBS.
e0eM6 TIL that a fake smile is called 'The Pan Am smile', named after the airline Pan American World Airways, whose flight attendants would always flash every passenger the same superficial smile.
77pL TIL there is a 13 month calendar & that the Kodak company used it internally for 70 years.
rN4aW TIL the island of Zannone, Italy became known as 'Orgy Island' when a secret diary revealed the names of billionaire and celebrity attendees, after the host (Marquis Camillo Casati Stampa di Soncino) shot his wife, her lover, and himself.