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TIL Jennifer Lopez doesn't sing the chorus of her songs: "Play" (it's Christina Milian), "Ain't It Funny (Remix)" (Ashanti), "I'm Real" (Ashanti), and "Jenny From the Block" (Natasha Ramos).

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YpxlG TIL that in Iceland, if you want to make your own necropants (nábrók), you have to get permission from a living man to use his skin after his death, flay his lower body after he's buried, then steal a coin from a poor widow and place it in the scrotum. The coin will draw money into the scrotum.
loejr TIL about the chatelaine - an 1800s women accesory which was a customisable swiss army type collection of useful objects that hung on your waist
8a6vX TIL a civilian who went on a fly-along aboard a French Air Force Rafale B fighter jet was accidentally ejected during flight. He survived with back injuries and the pilot managed to land the jet with minor injuries to his hands from broken canopy glass but the cause of the error is unknown.
R5Le1 TIL during the filming of Blue Collar, in response to Richard Pryor's over-lengthy improvisation, Harvey Keitel flung an ashtray directly into the camera to deliberately ruin the take. Pryor and his bodyguard then proceeded to get into a fist fight with Keitel before the director broke up the fight.
E1N4x TIL an aerodynamic wind tunnel was installed at the base of the Eiffel tower in 1909. The tunnel was used to carryout out thousands of tests, including those on Wright Brothers airplanes and Porsche automobiles. The tower had a laboratory used by scientists to study meteorology, physiology.