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TIL before he could start editing and technically enhancing the "Get Back" documentary Peter Jackson first had to listen to 130 hours of audio and watch 57 hours of film footage of the Beatles writing and rehearsing

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G8eE TIL when Daft Punk recorded an interview with Giorgio Moroder (godfather of electronic music) for their song “Giorgio by Moroder”, they used microphones from 60s to 00s, so when he spoke of a period in his life, it would be recorded with a microphone that existed within the same timeframe.
8abgZ TIL that all of the actors who played the Doctor in the 1999 Doctor Who parody special "The Curse of Fatal Death" had all been considered for the role of the Doctor at some point during the main series.
ANlrg TIL: There is an early 19th century slang dictionary which helps adults of that time understand the youth. The slang includes "Cold as a wagon" = dead, "Coot" = idiot, "Exfluncticate" = destroy, and other insults/terms such as chirk, Catawamptiously chewed up, and Guttersnipe.
d57Q TIL Plato believes that people acquire knowledge of geometry before we were born, as we do not acquire the basic truths of math and science through observation so therefore our souls must have lived in a perfect universe before birth
6Eb68 TIL the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were revealed as specimens of the popular turtle pet species Red-eared Slider, leading to people keeping them as pets in Great Britain and causing ecological damage due to deliberate/accidental release. The turtle is listed on the IUCN's top 100 invasive species.