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TIL Andre 3000 recorded all the vocals for the hit Outkast song "Hey Ya!" Off the top of his head. He also recorded 30-40 takes of each line. His recording engineer said that there about 20 different versions of the song recorded during their sessions together.

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moWM TIL that congressional approval for the first Gulf War was effected by the testimony of a Kuwaiti nurse who claimed to have witnessed Iraqi soldiers pulling babies out of incubators and throwing them on the floor to die. This never happened. The nurse was not a nurse. She was coached by a PR firm.
N7R41 TIL helium is the only element that was discovered outside of earth before being found on our planet. Also, when cooled past its lambda point, it becomes a superfluid without viscosity.
ZdW4 TIL: When the Apollo 8 astronauts were sued by an atheist activist for reading from Genesis in lunar orbit, the Supreme Court threw out the case. Their reason? “Lack of jurisdiction” in orbit around the Moon.
R7AR6 TIL Bubble lights on a Christmas tree are filled with the low boiling solvent methylene chloride that boils and creates bubbles with the heat of a Christmas tree light bulb.
rN9Re TIL that sticking out one’s tongue is a sign of respect or agreement and was often used as a greeting in traditional Tibetan culture. Apparently, a cruel ninth-century Tibetan king had a black tongue, so people stick out their tongues to show that they are not like him (and aren’t his reincarnation)