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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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M7MyK TIL the song "Slippin into Darkness" by WAR musically inspired "Get Up, Stand Up" by Tosh/Marley and was Marley's last song performed live.
ne8yG TIL Raining animals is a rare meteorological phenomenon in which flightless animals fall from the sky. It is now accepted that there is only co-incidental association between animals perceived to be falling from the sky and meteorological or earthquake related phenomena.
BrgoD TIL that Atari, using the Tengen, entered a partnershp with Nintendo to produce games. Atari proceeded to illegally get a copy of the Nintendo patent for the lock out chip, produced several unlicensed games, then attempted to sue Nintendo for monopolistic practices.
GdQQ TIL that in New York subways, booth attendants would sprinkle chili powder in coin slots to stop people from “coin sucking”
aZNA TIL that Velociraptors were roughly the size of turkeys.