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TIL Beyoncé would sing her albums while running to keep herself from getting winded while on stage

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On6L TIL: Crows can remember an individual human’s face for up to two years, and warn other crows if the person is dangerous
yj6J TIL in 1985 Simple Minds rearranged and recorded “Don’t You Forget about Me” in 3 hours then forgot about it until The Breakfast Club came out and it became a #1 hit.
ed9L TIL Spielberg wrote a sequel to E.T. in which Elliot receives a radio signal that leads him to believe E.T. is back. Unbeknownst to him the signal comes from an evil alien race that landed on Earth after picking up E.T.’s “phone home” distress call. He is then kidnapped and tortured.
5OdR TIL that in 1964 Zambia tried beating the US and the USSR in the space race. They used swings for zero gravity and rolling down a hill in barrels for turbulence training and a catapult to launch the 1,8mx3m rocket to the moon. The afronaut crew consisted of 10 Zambians, one 17y old girl and her cat.
0dJ5j TIL that platinum was not known in Europe before the (re)discovery of the Americas. The first European reference to platinum appears in 1557 as a description of an unknown noble metal found between Darién and Mexico, "which no fire nor any Spanish artifice has yet been able to liquefy"