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TIL Snoop Dogg had produced several pornographic movies in the beginning of the 2000's

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R5g06 TIL the 1983 Talking Heads song "Burning Down The House" originated from the drummer seeing a Parliament Funkadelic concert and getting amped on the audience chanting "burn down the house!" It was added to a jam session.
orko TIL Johnny Depp is blind in one eye
M7JXb TIL of the Affair of the Dancing Lamas, where a filmmaker got in trouble with Tibetan authorities after they got offended at Tibetan lamas promoting his documentary with dances. It’s cited as a reason for Tibet receiving less reforms and why it was less prepared for the Chinese invasion of 1950.
ORwa TIL of Death Valley Unified School District, which covers 6000sq miles but serves only 60 students, making both one of the largest and smallest districts in the USA. It is also the only district with a school inside a national park.
Eggjo TIL Astronomers measure sunspot areas using a square grid by placing the grid over the photo of a sunspot and count the number of squares covering it. Areas can also be determined using graphical charts and software