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TIL Nike's Jumpman Logo was created from a studio set picture where Michael Jordan did "ballet moves" in order to try to recreate a Life Magazine photo shoot of him taken during the Olympics.

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Yp9mv TIL Bruce Jay Friedman attributed the inspiration for his groundbreaking play 'Steambath' (which was the first to show nudity on broadcast TV in America) to "bad experience with the food at a Chinese restaurant"
rA9w TIL Central Park’s rivers and streams are entirely artificial and can be turned on and off.
M417 TIL a student sent John Lennon a letter stating his teacher was conducting a class analyzing the Beatles’ songs. This act inspired the song “I Am The Walrus,” as the whole purpose of the song, according to John, was to confuse, befuddle, and mess with the Beatles experts.
n7oo TIL through coarticulation, your brain decides the placement of your tongue and lips based on the sounds that follow the first letter. i.e. your lips are shaped differently for the /k/ in kid vs. /k/ in cop.
E17Do TIL that one of Terry Jones' characters in Monty Python's Life of Brian - the crowd member who demands that Pilate 'Welease Woger' - is named in the script after the actor Bob Hoskins