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TIL Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers. Playing the music video "Rhythm Nation" on one laptop even caused a laptop sitting nearby to crash. It turns out that the song contained one of the natural resonant frequencies for the model of 5400 rpm laptop hard drives.

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YwnB TIL Asbestos was used as fake snow in early Hollywood in films such as, “The Wizard of Oz”
L7nP TIL There’s a 300-page book called ‘A Void’ that was written without ever using the letter “e”. The original is French but there are over a dozen versions in different languages written by translators who also managed to compose them without using the most common letter of the alphabet.
JYOK4 TIL Marvin from Pulp Fiction (Vincent kills him in the famous car accident scene) is the voice actor of Samurai Jack and appeared in many other animated television series or video games (Futurama, Family Guy, Afro Samurai, Diablo 3, Dota 2 and many others).
ANbmg TIL Apple's first CEO, Michael Scott, once personally fired forty Apple employees, believing they were redundant. Later the same day, he gathered employees around a keg of beer and stated, "I'll fire people until it's fun again." Following this event, he was demoted to vice chairman.
7pNM TIL The voice actors for Captain Planet included Martin Sheen, Meg Ryan, Tim Curry, Jeff Goldblum, James Coburn… and Sting.