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TIL Brian wilson of the Beach Boys wrote the song “Good Vibrations” on LSD and considered it the “summation of his musical vision”

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nePnr TIL While filming Leon The Professional, Natalie Portman helped Jean Reno quit smoking.
OyW1 TIL in the decades before World War II, basketball was dominated by Jewish players.
7rGpr TIL During WWII, the British housed captured Nazi generals in country estates which were secretly bugged. They were invited to garden parties, lunches at the Strand in central London and were each given servants. It was so extravagant that an outraged Churchill ordered the "pampering" to stop
VBkoQ TIL that In US the religious books and bibles are the most popular adult genre
dDV87 TIL the Faroe Islands has a giant underwater traffic roundabout in a 11km undersea tunnel that connects two of its most populous islands. Called the Jellyfish Roundabout, it features an illuminated rock and sculptures by Tróndur Patursson