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TIL that British actress Naomi Watt's father Peter Watts was a sound engineer who worked with Pink Floyd.He can be heard on the track "Brain Damage",where he contributed the repeated laughter

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rNpo0 TIL about Ippolito d’Este (born 1479), who was a wealthy member of the powerful House of Este. He was made a Catholic Cardinal when he was 14 years old, without ever becoming a priest. He was deeply connected to the Medici, Aragon, and Borgia families.
oRmlE TIL that the term “missionary position” was likely invented by sexologist Alfred Kinsey and based on a misunderstanding of an earlier book. Regardless, the term has since been adopted into French, German, Spanish, and Dutch
VMb8Q TIL of the term Fellow Traveller, used to refer to people who sympathize with the ideology of an organization and cooperate with it, but are not members of it.
jNlKE TIL that Vanilla Ice used Queen and David Bowie's Under Pressure song baseline for his one-hit wonder Ice Ice Baby but didn't pay any royalties to Queen or Bowie. After facing a lawsuit, he then claimed he purchased the song Under Pressure in an interview, only to be corrected by a Queen spokesman.
69Gw TIL Minnesota National Guard has a military exchange partnership with Norway, the longest ever running between two nations