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TIL Tide laundry detergent is frequently stolen and used as currency by criminals

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W7Ymo TIL that Hans Zimmer was in the very first video to play on MTV back in August 1, 1981.
V9dm TIL Even though Wierd Al does not need to ask for permission for his parodies and does not need to pay royalties yet he only makes parodies with permission of the original artists and pays royalties for the songs as well.
6OE8 TIL the United States Air Force Space Command commissioned Bill Nye to make a video for the Air Force called “Hollywood vs. EMP” so that the people who must deal with real EMP would not be confused by fiction.
X050P TIL: There is a graveyard/garden in Vatican City that you can only enter if you speak German or if you are Dutch/Belgian. It also is technically part of Italy but fully under the control of the Vatican.
Da1r TIL China owns less than 10% of USA’s overall debt