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TIL: Roddenberry wrote lyrics for the original Star Trek theme song

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MeaxA TIL Steve Jobs threw such a tantrum when he was given the employee number 2 that he even cried. He also was so hellbent in be before Steve Wozniak that he then demanded to be Employee #0.
JJol TIL that one of the first people to be killed by a robot was Kenji Urada, a Japanese engineer working at a Kawasaki Heavy Industries plant. While working on a broken robot, he failed to turn it off completely, resulting in the robot pushing him into a grinding machine with its hydraulic arm.
RYxl TIL On the 27th of August 1883 the loudest noise in recorded history came from a volcanic eruption that had a force 10,000 times that of a hydrogen bomb.
OoJER TIL Pilot fish can form sort of symbiotic relationships with sharks to the point where if their shark is caught, the pilot fish will follow the boat that took it and become distressed when it can't find it or isn't near its "host" shark.
Vdx8 TIL that during the filming of Eastern Promises, Viggo Mortensen’s Russian Mafia tattoos were so realistic that when he walked into a Russian Diner in London, everyone fell silent out of fear.