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TIL Van Morrison was so upset at his record label for the crappy contract that he recorded 31 crappy songs on purpose to fulfill his contractual obligations. They weren't released until 2017 and only got out of his Bang Record contract when Bert Berns died of a heart attack.

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Blpr TIL the guy who discovered Pluto’s moon Charon made up the name to resemble his wife’s name, Charlene. He later discovered that in Greek mythology, Charon was the ferryman who brought the souls of the dead across the river Styx to Hades, AKA Pluto.
d1gE TIL in order to be qualified to pilot supertankers and other large vessels, pilot boat captains train on to scale versions that handle like their larger counterparts
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epkY5 TIL that lightsaber fights have become an official sport in France. As of 2019, it was the first country in the world to recognize it as such.