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TIL to avoid the show's title leading prospective viewers to assume the show was opera-related, the logo for "The Sopranos" was designed to include a gun in place of the letter "R".

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pkQ4 TIL that when he was in hiding, Salman Rushdie immersed himself in Super Mario World, and joked that the best way to liberate Iran was to drop Nintendo consoles from the sky
Wk55o TIL Germany's 83 million inhabitants ate 19.6 billion chicken eggs last year
QN4Gd TIL that conjoined twins have been documented for thousands of years, and that there are 5 common types of conjoined twins and 11 rarer types.
VMJ0Z TIL that in 1961 two nuclear bombs were dropped on North Carolina when the US bomber carrying them broke up in midair. Although neither detonated, one of the bombs was fully armed and it is unknown to this day why it failed. Each bomb had 250 times the destructive power of the one used at Hiroshima.
DQQDr TIL Scientists Make Simulated Moondust, JSC-1 simulant, to use to test equipment intended for The Moon. It is very abrasive, which grinds machinery & seals, & damages human lungs.