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TIL: On the day of his audition to sing for ACDC, Brian Johnson also sang a Hoover vacuum commercial

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jNxna TIL: To become an astronaut in Japan you are tested in your ability to fold a thousand paper cranes.
780MX TIL Serial killer Dimitris Vakrinos would kill people who mildly annoyed him. He once shot two random teens for being rude to someone on the street. After an argument with a fellow taxi driver over taxi priorities he tracked him down months later, got in his taxi posing as a customer and killed him
XPRX TIL Mike Patton, who is known for his vast range of vocal abilities, voiced all of the infected in I Am Legend.
4XxNa TIL that Alice in Wonderland was banned in China in grounds that animals shouldnt speak.
J5aV TIL In 2007 a Dutch reality show called “De Grote Organshow” pitted contestants in dire need of organ transplants against each other, resulting in outrage across the globe– only to reveal it was a hoax that highlighted a serious problem. Over 50,000 people then signed up for the organ donor’s list