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TIL Bret Easton Ellis recorded an unusable audio commentary track for the DVD release of "The Rules of Attraction" under the influence of cocaine and tequila. The DVD was instead released with commentary from Carrot Top, who had nothing to do with the making of the film.

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a8Jr9 TIL that the Amber Alert isn't named after the color, but after Amber Hagerman, a nine-year-old Texan girl who was kidnapped right off the streets and later found dead with her throat slit four days later. Her murder is still unsolved.
5YMDQ TIL An instrumental version of the song "Sukiyaki", a story of a man who looks up and whistles while he is walking so that his tears will not fall, was played by NASA over the radio for the Gemini VII astronauts as mood music, thereby becoming one of the first pieces of music sent to humans in space
Bwwk TIL In under 20 years the Aral Sea has shrunk to ten percent of its original size and is so salty that barely any life form remains. The Russians were taught to believe that the sea was an “error of nature” and therefore pointless
4XwQg TIL that in 1964, Elvis Presley bought President Franklin D Roosevelt's yacht, USS Potomac (AG-25) for $55,000. He later gave it to St Jude's Children Hospital for a fundraiser, and that hospital sold it for $65,000.
Na1J TIL Mel Blanc (original voice of Bugs Bunny) was in a nearly fatal car accident and continued to record voices for all his characters from his hospital bed in a full body cast.