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TIL "Weird Al" Yankovic got his LASIK surgery (to fix his vision so wouldn't need glasses anymore) done on live television. It was captured by KTLA 5 (in the Los Angeles area) in 1998.

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9Y0dG TIL the world record for the loudest thing ever shouted belongs to an Irish female teacher who shouted the word “quiet” at 121 decibels, the equivalent of a jet engine.
4kddJ TIL that the reason why ABBA and many Swedish bands wore tacky and glamour outfits in the 70s and 80s was due to tax write-offs
697A7 TIL British Liberal MP Jeremy Thorpe paid hitmen to kill his former lover Norman Josiffe in the 1970s
VMODm TIL about "Fallen Astronaut," the first (and, so far, only) art installation on the moon. The 3.3-inch aluminum figurine was left on the surface by the crew of Apollo 15 as a memorial to 14 Americans and Soviets who died in service of their nation's space programs.
epdME TIL after visiting Pyongyang in 1971, Romanian dictator Ceaușescu got obsessed to North Korean ideology and implemented it to his country. He was executed in 1989.