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TIL Academy award winner Sir Ben Kingsley real name is Krishna Pandit Bhanji

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JY9gj TIL after writing the original theme song to "Monk," Jeff Beal was fired and replaced with Randy Newman. After he won an Emmy for the original theme, he was hired back and they made an episode in tribute to him about a fan who was mad they changed the original theme song of their favorite show.
m15Zp TIL there is a very small (9-inch-tall) aluminum pyramid on the very top of the Washington Monument, because at the time it was completed, aluminum was considered more precious than gold or silver
KojE TIL: In 2008 a small town mayor was mistakenly raided by a swat team. He was held at gun point and claims his dogs we’re killed for sport, one while it was running away.
XgPk TIL Elon Musk explicitly wrote into SpaceX’s contract with Orbital Outfitters that the that the company’s new spacesuits must look “badass”.
kjJd TIL that Princeton researchers successfully turned a live cat into a functioning telephone in 1929