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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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8avnZ TIL when actor Ving Rhames won a Golden Globe in 1998, he called fellow nominee Jack Lemmon to the stage and gave him the award, saying, "I feel like being an artist is about giving, and I'd like to give this to you, Mr. Jack Lemmon."
neRQr TIL that when Berlins infamous Spandau Prisons last inmate, Nazi Rudolf Hess, died, the entire site was demolished, ground into powder and dumped in the sea to stop it becoming a Nazi shrine. A supermarket for British Troops was put in it's place, who nicknamed it 'Hessco's' (after Tesco's)
d88Nj TIL: Alan Smithee, a pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project, stopped in 1998 after the director of the movie “Burn Hollywood Burn” (a film about a fictional director actually named Alan Smithee trying to disown his movie) used the pseudonym himself.
e0Rob TIL in 1848 entrepreneur James Lick arrived in San Francisco with 600 lbs of chocolate to sell. When all of his chocolate sold quickly, he urged his confectioner friend in Peru to come to San Francisco and start his own Chocolate company. That confectioner's name is Domingo Ghirardelli.
x6y70 TIL Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179) is the first composer with known biographical details. A CD featuring her music with Emma Kirkby released in 1981 sold 260,000 copies, making it the eleventh biggest-selling classical CD of all time