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TIL Christopher Walken volunteered to be in Fatboy Slim's iconic "Weapon of Choice" music video

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eprMk TIL Notre Dame Football isn't variant of football with different rules called Notre Dame for some reason but NBC coverage of standard college football games involving University of Notre Dame. Disclaimer: I'm not from the US and my knowledge of football ends with knowing what NFL and Super Bowl are.
8JYZ TIL multitasking is a myth. What we call multitasking is actually ‘switch-tasking.’ There is actually a stop/start process that occurs in the brain when we switch between tasks. This process causes “more mistakes, and over time it can be energy sapping.”
Y6kZ TIL That Beck wrote and composed all of the songs on his Grammy Award Winning Album of the Year ‘Morning Phase’ whilst also playing over 15 instruments and singling vocals.
5YmJ9 TIL that the Neptunes Cup sponge grew so big that they were commonly harvested to be used as baths for infants. Overharvesting for this use contributed largely to their extinction until they were rediscovered in 2010.
QJ65X TIL that Christopher Nolan didn't know that Harry Styles was famous when he cast him in Dunkirk, and only selected him for the role because he liked his audition tape.