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Today I learned Dr. Dre and Eminem recorded "My Name Is..." on the first day of recording tracks for the Slim Shady LP. It only took them an hour.

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e0l46 TIL Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith first met his doppelganger, actor Will Ferrell, at the premier of the film The Ladies Man. After the two finally met, Ferrell looked at Smith and said, completely deadpan, “You are very handsome” before walking away.
E1amW Today I learned of the California case Lodi v. Lodi, where a man sued himself, represented himself, and won by default after he failed to show up. The court wrote that “it is hard to imagine a more even-handed application of justice,”.
jmlN TIL After accepting a role in ‘The Girl from Petrovka’ Anthony Hopkins set out to find the book. Unable to find any for sale, he spotted one on a park bench and snagged it. Two years later he was speaking with the author, who lamented having lost his copy with notes. The same copy Sir Hopkins found.
9Yp6D TIL a CT scan of an 1000-year-old buddah statue revealed the skeleton of a monk inside
LQlep TIL about Lake Agassiz, a proglacial lake that was larger than all the Great Lakes combined