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

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VBEgm TIL about Kim Kahana. He survived a firing squad in the Korean War and later was the sole survivor of an airplane crash that killed 32. He earned a Silver Star, 2 Bronze Stars and 2 Purple Hearts. He has 6 black belts in karate, aikido and jujutsu. He has a long and successful career in films.
8aemV TIL the Moondance Diner in Manhattan, where playwright and composer of RENT, Johnathan Larson, worked as a waiter for ten years and met Jesse L. Martin (also from RENT), eventually closed due to rising rent.
j6GQn TIL there are no hereditary knighthoods in the UK anymore. The only hereditary nobles left are about 900 peers and about 1200 baronets.
7r8Qr TIL Earlier this year, analysis showed that Subway 'chicken' was about 1/2 chicken, 1/2 soy mush.
eVNb TIL ‘McRib’ contains over 70 ingredients including a bleaching agent often used in foamed plastics. McRib’s “restructured meat technology” uses proteins extracted from a mixture of tripe, heart, and scalded stomach to bind pork trimmings into a rib-like food item.