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TIL British rock band The Who was at Shepperton Studios filming a music video and in the adjoining studio, They were shooting the egg room scene from the movie Alien. The Director borrowed the laser from the who to make the effect with the smoke and the laser over the top of the eggs.

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Vaj4 TIL Max Martin, a 43-year-old Swede, has co-written more #1 singles than anyone since the Beatles. His credits include “I Want It That Way”, “Oops!… I Did It Again”, “It’s My Life”, “Since U Been Gone”, “I Kissed a Girl”, “Shake It Off”, and much more.
pjgN TIL: There is controversy over China’s top ranking in the international student assessment. Only the three richest Chinese school districts participate in the international student assessment.
b941Q TIL the United States military pays professional sports teams to display patriotism. Between 2012-2014 the military spent $10.4 million on marketing contracts with teams in the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL and MLS, while spending $88 million sponsoring a NASCAR racer's car.
6YeX TIL Swedish Navy detected underwater sounds suspected to be hostile Russian submarines in the 80s. The suspicion escalated to a diplomatic conflict between Sweden and Russia. It turned out later that these sounds came from fish farts, a discovery which led to the Ig Nobel Prize.
PBGJ TIL: That there is so much space debris in earth’s atmosphere that in future it may just become dangerous to leave earth and we may get trapped in our own garbage.