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TIL Dr. Deborah Birx achieved the rank of Colonel in the military

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epj8n TIL that Quiet Riot never intended to record a cover of Slade's 'Cum On Feel The Noize.' They actively tried to botch the recording by not practicing beforehand, expecting a 'train wreck.' Instead, their raw approach unintentionally captured the song's essence and turned it into a massive hit.
v1Waj TIL that after tomatoes were imported to Europe they were deemed poisonous and only used for decoration. Eventually poor people ate them for their low cost and they became popular nearly 300 years after their introduction.
pDMG TIL: In the James Bond film/novel, ‘Casino Royale’, the name Vesper Lynd is a pun on “West Berlin”, signifying divided loyalties.
4XlWa TIL after author James Frey was caught fabricating parts of his memoir A Million Little Pieces, Random House offered purchasers of the book a refund. To get this refund, they had to send in page 163 of their book & a sworn statement that they purchased it under the assumption that it was a memoir.
kJ0DE Today I Learned about Project Orion, a project that employed Nuclear Pulse Propulsion, had the potential to travel up to 11% the speed of light, and was shelved in the 1960's.