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TIL Paul McCartney’s voice was supposed to appear on Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side Of The Moon” but Roger Waters cut them after he realized McCartney “thought it was necessary to perform” and wasn’t giving him his genuine thoughts.

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neYnB TIL Julia Roberts told Matthew Perry that she would appear on Friends if he wrote her a paper on Quantum Physics! He did it, faxed it to her the next day, and she appeared on the show and later dated him!
nWWEW TIL about the Biological Resource Center in Arizona, that was raided by the FBI in 2014, where agents discovered bodies (which had been donated to "science") "cut up with chainsaws," "a woman's head sewn on a man's torso," and more, being sold for profit. The owner got probation. Agents got therapy.
pd1Q TIL that Samuel Morse, in the process of writing Morse Code, modeled the letter “V” as “dit-dit-dit-dah”. This was a reflection of the first 4 notes in Beethoven’s Symphony No.5 also known as the “Victory symphony”.
wo8j1 TIL that Footy in Australia is not rugby, fútbol (soccer) or American football. It refers to Australian Rules Football.
9LoG TIL that due to incredibly high pressure on Uranus and Neptune, it is theorized that oceans of liquid diamond exist on the surface of the planet, with solid “diamond-bergs” floating on the surface