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TIL Christopher Walken first trained as a dancer, and has danced in over 50 of his films, also starring in a music video which won a Grammy for Best Music Video of 2002

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p8lLG TIL that there is a standard for sending internet packets using people and flags
kJAbB TIL Gunkanjima is an abandoned island near Nagasaki. Once densely populated with 5,000 residents on 0.072 km2, the island town was mainly a coal mine operation until 1974 when operations ceased. Typhoons have caused structures to slowly deteriorate, further emphasizing the atmosphere of abandonment
LXBd TIL Sweden will import 800,000 tonnes of trash each year to satisfy its waste-to-energy plants – waste conscious Swedes have been recycling so efficiently, the country doesn’t have enough of its own trash to burn.
MeavV TIL the Grateful Dead briefly toured with a PA system called the Wall Of Sound that consisted of six hundred and four speakers, channelling twenty-six thousand watts of power. It has been called “the greatest vessel for the amplification of sound in history”.
kMPm TIL Rupert Murdoch, acting CEO of Fox News, was “not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company” after an investigation that his companies regularly hacked the phones of celebrities, royalty, and public citizens.