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GYK6E TIL about a hip hop duo called Milli Vanilli, whose vocals were entirely recorded by other people. In 1990, the group won a Grammy for Best New Artist but had it revoked after the truth was uncovered. The frontmen of the duo later said that they were duped into the hoax by their producer.
a80yo TIL The 1994 movie Tammy and the T-Rex was conceived when the director Stewart Raffill was approached by a man who had a large animatronic T-rex that he was getting rid of. He asked Raffill if he could make a movie about, who agreed, and wrote the story for the movie within a week.
wLY TIL that prior to WWII, the U.S. authorized millions of dollars for “War Plan Red,” a military strategy to invade Canada and destroy Britain. However, the start of WWII prevented the plan from ever seeing the light of day.
yQ9gX TIL that the US flag was not the first flag on the moon. It was a "flag" from the University of Bern (Switzerland) that was used to capture solar wind particles, and was planted first to maximise the experiment's duration.
4AMX TIL there’s a medical condition that causes its sufferers to sweat blood.