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TIL This weird Fact/trivia About Lethal Weapon 2, Joe Pesci character Leo Getz says OK in this film 105 times just in this second film, 276 times across three films (introduced in the second film)

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a8vab TIL Rockall is an uninhabited islet in the United Kingdom's exclusive economic zone (EEC). In 1997 the British recognized Rockall wasn't an island and gave up all EEC claims it could have made, Rockall is the only case of a state voluntarily downgrading an insular feature to "a rock".
pYebQ TIL that Kate Bush is generally regarded as the first ever singer to use a wireless radio microphone on stage, made out of a wire clothes hanger, which allowed her to incorporate extensive dance routines into her live shows.
YpryP TIL There's a Giant Mushroom in Oregon that is 8,650 years old and "is considered the largest and oldest organism on Earth".
b6vR9 TIL the V-2 rockets the Nazis used to shell London in a terror campaign "had no effect on the outcome of the war", and were such a waste of resources that Freeman Dyson described the V-2 program as "almost as good as if Hitler had adopted a policy of unilateral disarmament."
odPr TIL Forbes Has Estimated That Smaug From The Hobbit, Was Worth 8.6 Billion Dollars. Putting Him 7th On Their Fictional 15 List.