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TIL that while Elizabeth Fraser was recording “Teardrop” with Massive Attack, she found out that her boyfriend Jeff Buckley drowned. She now considers this song to be “kind of about him.”

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PY0GZ TIL that women could not vote in Liechteinstein until 1984, when 51.3% of men voted for it, after rejecting it in three previous referendums.
4XJew TIL that Dr. Strangelove was originally conceived as a drama about the nature of nuclear warfare, but as Kubrick was writing the screenplay, he felt many of the accurate depictions of nuclear warfare policy were too unbelievable for audiences to take seriously, and so it was turned into a comedy.
OGda TIL that a banana produces one particle of antimatter every 75 minutes.
KOax4 TIL: Peacocks are ophiophagous, they eat snakes.
XKlX TIL in 1998, Sony inadvertently released a camcorder that could see through clothes. When aimed at people wearing dark clothing, the night-vision feature created an x-ray effect, meaning what ever was beneath became visible. Sony had to recall over 700,000 units after they discovered the issue.