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TIL that in the USSR, when foreign music was banned, bootleg records were made on old x-rays pulled from medical trash. These were called "ribs" and "bone records".

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YPZr TIL Christopher Walken was a lion tamer as a teenager and applied for the position because, “I’ve always loved cats.”
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