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TIL: Nirvana's producer offered to work on "In Utero" for free if any of the band beat him in a game of pool

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o8PE TIL in 1962 the USS Independence encountered the Italian ship Amerigo Vespucci, the former asked “who are you?”, after it received an answer, the American ship declared “You’re the most beautiful ship in the world”
JmGv TIL that The Day After, a 1983 made- for- TV movie about nuclear war and it’s horrific effects, was watched by about 100 million people when it aired. President Reagan was left deeply depressed after viewing it, the film is now seen as having pushed him to start advocating nuclear disarmament
XEok TIL that “Kittchen” is a German Slang Term for Prison
4A1w TIL that Kevin Carter committed suicide 3 months after winning the Pulitzer Prize for a photograph of a starving toddler being stalked by a vulture
0WZN TIL that the penis of a male lake duck can reach the same length as the animal itself