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TIL: That Miami has never recorded a temperature over 100°F

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GYVVJ TIL about fritted glass - a special kind of glass with small opaque dots to ensure birds can see the glass while humans can see straight through it.
BrLL TIL that Disney wanted Robin Williams for the voice of the genie in Aladdin so much that they animated and lip-synced the genie doing actual stand-up comedy from Williams before ever approaching him. Williams was so impressed that he immediately signed on.
NAoP TIL That an Anti-Piracy Ad was fined for using stolen music.
N7NpP TIL In 1963 disc jockey Wolfman Jack started broadcasting from a station across the U.S.-Mexico border whose high-powered border blaster signal was picked up across much of the United States and at night as far away as Europe and the Soviet Union.
NX0re TIL Eminem owns a modestly sized recording studio in Ferndale, Michigan named Effigy, where a majority of his music since 2007 has been recorded.