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TIL Jack Black was a pilot in the 1995 movie Waterworld

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5Vwxr TIL that Frank Zappa intended his 1982 song “Valley Girl” to be a mocking satire of California’s teen culture, but ironically, the song’s success instead popularized the “valley girl” accent nationwide. So much so, that a film titled “Valley Girl” was released a year later.
VBpjk TIL that Planets don't orbit exactly the sun's center — they orbit a common center of mass in between their and the sun's center called the barycenter. The barycenter of Jupiter and sun actually just outside the sun's surface!
woLY1 TIL: The small village of Embo in the Scottish highlands declared itself independent from the UK for 1 day in 1988
b6nEN Today I learned the term "software engineering" was coined by a woman..... Margaret Hamilton
oJ7o TIL the Statue of Liberty was originally supposed to preside over the entrance to the Suez Canal in Port Sa'id, Egypt.