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TIL that in the music video for *NSYNC's "Bye Bye Bye", Chris Kirkpatrick and Joey Fatone actually jumped across the train carriages

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e00lb TIL Prince was to be in a Simpsons episode -when he sent his notes on the script, they didn’t match to what was written: Prince’s friend had written him new script instead. The episode was canned because Prince refused the original writers script; it was too similar to Michael Jackson’s episode.
PA1Z TIL Duck Hunt is a two player game. A controller in port 2 controls the ducks.
LkJNp TIL that in 1915, a pilot planned a stunt to drop a baseball into an MLB coach’s glove from a plane during a flyover. As a prank she dropped a grapefruit instead; it exploded in the coach’s glove and covered him in red pulp, and he was convinced he was seriously injured and bleeding to death.
1ap57 TIL that iron smelting was independently discovered in West Africa by 1000 BCE
rRbYx TIL a "bottle episode" in TV, in which characters sit around and talk for an entire episode, was created to save money and/or time, as in "we pulled that episode out of a bottle like a genie." Today it is revered, and shows like Seinfeld, Friends and Always Sunny have turned it into an art