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TIL that Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” music video was released on VHS and sold over 1 million copies

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QJ5M TIL there are bridesmaids at weddings to confuse evil spirits so they can’t tell who the real bride is.
VM1Om TIL I learned that a group of people from Iran actually tried to break the record for the biggest sandwich, but they failed due to eating the sandwich before the GWR team was able to measure it.
4o6a TIL in 1987 a 19 year old German flew a small plane across Russia to Moscow and landed it in Red Square without being detected by Soviet authorities.
Wk0MB TIL that the suds of shampoo, soap and many other foaming products is often artifically added to the product to help convince us that it is working.
b9KE7 TIL that the first public demonstration of a one-way videophone occurred on April 7, 1927, between Herbert Hoover (then U.S. secretary of commerce) in Washington, D.C., and officials of AT&T in New York City. This was followed by the first demonstration of a two-way videophone, on April 9, 1930.