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TIL there was no use of green screen or visual effects in the music video for A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton

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rQed TIL Ulrich von Liechtenstein was a real man, and his autobiography depicts him as an undefeated jouster, competing for the hand of a noblewoman who demanded great deeds to even hold her hand.
e0Lbg TIL cows are often fed chicken litter which contains chicken poop, and chickens are often fed crushed bone meal, which can be crushed cow bones, and all this can lead to the spread of mad cow disease
jN5da TIL Maurice Ravel’s Boléro was meant for the main theme song of The Legend of Zelda. They couldn’t get the rights until just after the game would release, so Koji Kondo wrote the iconic score in one night.
M7OEW TIL Alaska uses military artillery guns for avalanche control
x6v8B TIL that the stylized Dubai logo is the Arabic text for Dubai superimposed atop the English text