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TIL that there are estimated to be around 36 active communicating intelligent civilizations in our galaxy according to a research team from the University of Nottingham, UK.

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n77r TIL in 1966–the same year as “Paint It Black,” “Yellow Submarine,” “Substitute,” “Wild Thing,” “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg,” “You Can’t Hurry Love,” “The Sounds of Silence,” and “Hold On, I’m Comin’ ”–Billboard’s #1 song of the year was “The Ballad of the Green Berets.”
05yR TIL Robin Williams was agreed to be paid $75,000 for voicing the Genie in Aladin, which went on to gross over $200 million domestically. Disney later sent him a late Picasso painting (estimated at the time to be worth $1 million) as a way of thanking him for his work.
grv9D TIL that when Brooklyn Nine Nine started, Melissa Fumero and Stephanie Beatriz feared that one of them would eventually be fired as it was unusual at the time to cast two Latinas in main roles. As a result they tried to make their characters' appearances as distinct as possible.
XpvX TIL: The space age architectural style of the 50s/60s is called Googie and Wildwood, NJ is one of it’s noted districts.
BgwLW TIL: That Princess Diana was buried holding a set of rosary beads that were gifted to her by Mother Teresa, who died just 6 days after Diana at the age of 87.