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TIL in 2017 a competition for independent filmmakers was organized to submit treatments for music videos for one of three Elton John songs from the 1970s in celebration of his fiftieth anniversary of his songwriting relationship with Bernie Taupin. The winners feature on YouTube as official videos.

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pYvvA TIL Apollo 11 flight controller Bill Moon was the first Asian American to work in NASA's Mission Control. Moon would go on to work on every manned space program before he retired after 37 years
oVGo TIL of the ‘Japanese Smoking Paradox’ where Japanese smokers smoke more than US/European males but have much lower lung cancer rates and nobody is entirely sure why.
JYRDv TIL that out of the 9 billion tons of plastic humans have created throughout history, half of it has been in the past 13 years
0EZ1 TIL that the Veronica Mars film raised $5M via Kickstarter, but grossed only $3M worldwide at the box office, meaning fans were willing to pay more for the film to be made than they were to watch it in theaters.
GYNv1 TIL in 1993 David Letterman cut Bill Hicks final Late Show standup appearance for being too controversial, 4 months before he died. To make amends in 2009 David invited Bill's mother Mary as a guest & broadcast the full routine. David remarked "It says more about me as a guy than it says about Bill"