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4yYX TIL Rick Astley was knighted by the Queen of England earlier this year and should now be referred to as “Sir Rick Astley”
9wbjr TIL that Joseph Kennedy Jr. (JFK's older brother) was killed in WWII during Operation Anvil, an early attempt to bomb occupied France using a bomber converted into a remote control drone. The drone aircraft prematurely detonated after arming the explosives, killing Kennedy and his copilot.
wLj7M TIL One April day in 1930, the BBC reported, "There is no news." Instead they played piano music.
ajZo TIL that the guitar riff for ’(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’ popped into Keith Richards’ head as he was going to sleep in a hotel one night. He quickly recorded it and went to sleep. When he woke up, he heard the soon to be iconic riff and “then me snoring for the next 40 minutes.”
mxaBO TIL the directors of Uncut Gems, did not want to cast Kevin Garnett because they were "sick Knick fan, my instinct when I saw Kevin’s name was, ‘I hate him. I don’t want him anywhere near my movie,’". After it did not work out with Kobe Bryant, Joel Embiid and Amare Stoudemire they stuck with KG.