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TIL Kevin Bacon Pays Wedding DJ’s Not To Play the Footloose Theme

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R7ZO9 TIL that there is a character named Jaglom Shrek in Star Trek: TNG Season 6 episode 19, and the episode was made after the childrens book that the ogre Shrek comes from. http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/shrek/ (i can't put both links in)
lP0G TIL That there is no “Unknown Soldier” from The Vietnam War at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington Cemetery. The man who was interred there from 1974 to 1998 was identified as Lt. Michael Blassie with DNA testing. He was removed, and now the crypt is empty.
woZYY TIL, in the January 1982 California floods, more than 18,000 landslides swept through the SF Bay Area killing 33 and causing $280 million in damages.
QNoGe TIL that archaeologists in England dug up a 1,700-year-old Roman chicken egg — and when three of them accidentally cracked, they released the world’s oldest rotten-egg smell.
yVnJX TIL that in 1956, IBM released it's first "hard drive" called RAMAC—short for Random Access Method of Accounting And Control—which held less than 5 megabytes of storage and occupied an entire room. RAMAC was leased for $3,200 a month, the equivalent of $28,000 in 2016.