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TIL Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer” is the most played music video in the history of MTV

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PkMg TIL the name of the first Porsche 911 was actually the Porsche 901. It was changed to 911 after Peugeot protested that they had exclusive rights to car names that consisted of 3 numbers with the middle number being a zero.
mxPpo TIL One teaspoon of neutron star equals the weight of around 900 Pyramids of Giza.
5njP TIL in the 1960’s the USA planned to test deadly nerve gas (VX and Sarin) on 200 Australian soldiers by bombing a chosen site in a Queensland forest. The plan was eventually vetoed by Aus PM.
kJoeB TIL that television journalist Deborah Norville was notified by an eagle-eyed TV viewer that she had a lump on her neck and advised to see a doctor. That lump was a cancerous thyroid nodule which Norville needed surgery to remove.
DYD TIL that Sean Connery has sworn not to return to Scotland until it becomes an independent state.