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TIL that “Weird Al” Yankovic was able to hold the note at the end of the Spy Hard theme song without needing to loop it.

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jNwWN TIL the Pentagon has worked behind the scenes on over 800 major movies and more than 1,000 TV titles. If there are characters, action or dialogue that the DOD don’t approve of, a film-maker who uses military equipment has to make changes to accommodate the military’s demands.
LRRQ TIL mongooses were introduced to Hawaii to control the invasive rat population. However, rats are nocturnal and mongooses are diurnal. Hawaii now has a problem with both.
9YyeD TIL Rover Curiosity has been on Mars for 8 yrs [2012-2020] and still performing it's mission of studying the climate, geology, life support capacity & other task assigned by Mars Exploration Program (MEP)..
YpKN7 TIL that Antonio López de Santa Anna, the famous Mexican general of the 1800s, also served as president of Mexico on 12 separate occasions over 22 years, and for 3 different governments.
4Eew TIL there was Russian novel published in 1999 which re-tells The Lord of The Rings from Sauron’s Perpective