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TIL that Neil Young's Southern Man briefly plays in the background of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama when they mention him (at about 0:54)

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xlpk TIL L. Ron Hubbard considered himself a nuclear physicist, though “His university records indicate that his exposure to ‘nuclear physics’ consisted of one class in 'atomic and molecular phenomena’ for which he earned an 'F’ grade.”
awmd0 TIL that worldwide, golf courses consume about 2.5 billion gallons/9.5 billion litres of water per day.
VBBD TIL Second Officer Charles Lightoller confessed years after the sinking of Titanic that binoculars were indeed on board, in a lock box for which no one seemed to have a key.
4X7Mw TIL That, in 1956, US Navy Ensign Thomas W, Attridge, while conducting a weapons test on his Gruman F-11 Tiger, aciidentally shot himself down when he flew his plane through cannon shells he had fired.
JYynm TIL Vantablack isn't a color but a surface application of nanotubes (Vertically Aligned NanoTube Array) that trap/move photons until they convert to heat - thus creating the "black" color through the absence of light