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TIL Adriano Celentano had a #1 hit in Italy for a gibberish “English” song

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M00W TIL that Hank Williams Jr’s signature beard, hat and sunglasses look are to disguise his disfigurement from when he fell almost 500 feet onto rock while mountain climbing in 1975
j6rgM TIL A speech, "IN EVENT OF MOON DISASTER" prepared for President Richard Nixon in the event of he moon landing being a failure, it detailed the White House’s response should the mission have ended in failure. (part 5 of the article)
08ML TIL of a rare chronic sleep disorder called Fatal Familial Insomnia, which renders the victim unable to sleep. One man diagnosed with the illness, Michael Corke, died a month after his 42nd birthday, by which time he had been completely sleep-deprived for six months. It has no known cure.
EgJY7 TIL The largest airline food poisoning incident occurred on Japan Airlines en route to Denmark after 197 fell ill from infected omelettes. Due to limited Japanese/Danish translators, Japanese speaking restaurant staff were recruited from Copenhagen to serve as medical translators
7rZ9b TIL the Notre Dame Cathedral was left to ruin until it was restored in the 19th century, and the restoration was Eugène Viollet-le-Duc's reimagining of what a Middle-Age Cathedral may have looked like.