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TIL that Pinky’s intro song in “Next Friday” is not sung by a black artist. It’s David Bowie.

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VMg7B TIL why the Apollo 11 moon landing footage is so grainy. There was a pristine version at NASA for years, but around 1980 due to a data tape shortage they reused the tape for something else.
eQE6 TIL the latin word “vagina” means “sheath”… i.e. the cover for a sword
wL1B1 TIL that people brought picnic baskets and opera glasses to watch the first battle of the US Civil War, expecting the whole dispute to be over quickly and easily. They had a bad day.
M7NOm TIL that before modern digital cameras that record images as digital files, there were still video cameras using the same technology as VHS camcorders that took photos formatted as single NTSC/PAL video frames on floppy disks
XEQZQ TIL In 1948, Quezon City was declared capital of Phillipines until 1976, when former President Ferdinand Marcos transferred the title to Manila. In 2013, a councilor urged Congress to make Quezon City the capital again