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TIL: The Legend of The Deep Sea Black Carpet

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MejW0 TIL Paul McCartney wrote the Beatles song “Got To Get You Into My Life” about weed.
XEmRk TIL that in Desert Storm in order to avoid trench warfare, the US put plows on Bradleys which drove along and filled 70 miles of defensive trenches obliterating thousands of Iraqi soldiers by burying them alive. Not a single American was killed during the attack.
W7M6A TIL Grover Cleveland first met his future wife while she was still an infant, and he bought her her first baby carriage.
R54J6 TIL Barbara Morgan, backup to Christa McAuliffe who died on the ill-fated Challenger mission, was also in a NASA chase plane that was following the Columbia when it broke up seventeen years later. She flew into space on Endeavour in 2007, fulfilling the Teacher in Space mission.
jpkj TIL Alan Rickman almost turned down his first film role - Hans Gruber in Die Hard; changed his mind and suggested wearing a suit and pretending to be a hostage