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TIL legendary record producer Quincy Jones was also the co-creator of sketch comedy show Mad TV

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DrZY TIL Voyager 1, the only man made object to leave the solar system, is carrying, amongst other records, a song called “Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground”. This song is available to extraterrestrials, should they ever find it, but not available in India, Canada, or the UK on copyright grounds.
8eNdG TIL that UC Berkeley offers a degree in "meme studies"
ZE6v TIL the saying “cut of one’s jib” is because in the 17th century, the shape of the jib sail often identified a vessel’s nationality, and hence whether it was hostile or friendly.
jNOXj TIL "1984", the commercial that introduced the Apple Macintosh during the 1984 Super Bowl, was directed by Ridley Scott
epwdJ TIL: Some car commercials are done with CGI. This is done because these commercials are often shot before the cars have actually been manufactured. Also it’s much harder to move these cars to the shooting locations. They use a car called the Mill Blackbird for the CGI.