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TIL the deep male voice behind the songs of Boney M. are from a German producer named Frank Farian, not from the 'main' frontman male 'vocalist' Bobby Farrell. Frank Farian was also the same guy that 'fabricated' the group Milli Vanilli, in which none of the frontman sang any lyrics of their tracks.

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RPw4 TIL The man who invented the K-Cup coffee pods doesn’t own a single-serve coffee machine. He said,“They’re kind of expensive to use…plus it’s not like drip coffee is tough to make.” He regrets inventing them due to the waste they make.
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5VxVp TIL that The Bounty which served as the pirate ship in The SpongeBob movie sank during Hurricane Sandy resulting in the deaths of two crew members
E1xwd TIL In 1969 Forrest Parry, an IBM engineer, had the idea to affix magnetic tape to a plastic card. Every adhesive failed. He went home frustrated. His wife was ironing when he walked in. She suggested he fuse the tape onto the card with the iron. It was a success, and the magstripe card was born.
mxVMp TIL Werner Herzog once promised fellow documentary maker Errol Morris that he would eat his shoe if Morris ever finished his movie on pet cemeteries, because he found Morris to be incapable of ever finishing his projects. In 1978 Morris finished his film, and Herzog publicly cooked and ate his shoe.