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TIL that to promote Spinal Tap’s 1992 album, Break Like The Wind, radio stations were sent a colander labelled as "Spinal Tap Official 1992 Calendar".

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ndxo TIL the Queen’s Guard at Buckingham Palace handle public nuisances not by ignoring them as seen in movies, but by shouting and pointing their loaded rifles at them.
RrX9 TIL The mouth of the Chesapeake Bay is the site of a 35-million year old impact crater and that shaped the bay
5Vd9B TIL Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, which is considered to be the first science fiction, gothic horror novel also wrote “The Last Man”, about a global pandemic caused by a bubonic plague that devastates 21st century Europe, thereby innovating the post-apocalyptic and dystopian fiction genre
wLOX8 TIL that Frank Borman, the astronaut that led the first flight around the moon, turned down the chance to actually go on a mission to land on the moon, because in his words, "To me, it wasn't worth it. It wasn't worth assuming the risks because I wasn't inclined to go pick up rocks."
ADvZl TIL that 95 year old Dick Van Dyke uses LightWave 3D and has been doing computer animation since owning a Commodore Amiga in 1991.