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TIL Chuck Berry’s classic song “Johnny B. Goode” is included on the Golden Record of both Voyager space probes.

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8MNX TIL that a 55 gal steel drum can be crushed like a tin can by heating it and then cooling it with ice water
lopN TIL that Jurassic Park IV is finally being made
0dQM TIL Actor Peter Cushing (Star Wars) once attempted suicide by running up and down stairs in hope that it would induce a heart attack
GgM7 TIL Jamie Lee Curtis fell in love with the guitarist from SPINAL TAP after seeing him in a Rolling Stone magazine article and they are still married to this day.
8adBa TIL the CIA paid magician John Mulholland $3,000 to write a spy manual of trickery and deception as part of the top-secret MKUltra project, a CIA program that investigated mind control. Mulholland’s 1953 guide was supposed to be destroyed in the 1970s but an archived copy reappeared decades later.