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TIL that the same person (Alan Adler) invented both the Aerobie flying disc and the AeroPress coffeemaker

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v1pxK TIL: The creators of the "Golden Record" - an audio recording sent into outer space aboard the Voyager spacecraft - wanted to include "Here Come the Sun" by the Beatles, but couldn't afford the $50,000 licensing fee demanded by the band's record company.
xVAw1 TIL the movie 'Seven Pounds' about a man (Will Smith) giving the gift of life to seven strangers, foregone the usual Hollywood premiere and instead chose Cleveland, Miami, Dallas, St. Louis, and Denver to premiere the film to raise funds for food banks in each region.
XEn7P TIL that Azerbaijan destroyed medieval Armenian graves in what has been referred to as 'cultural genocide'
ZnAB TIL of the Croydon Facelift: Hair is pulled back and tied up so tightly that it pulls the face tighter. (Victoria Beckham wore the style on ‘American Idol’.) The hairstyle is also known as the 'council house facelift’ or 'Essex facelift’ in the UK, because of its association with “low class” women.
Q8bp TIL that a US soldier at Bagram prison camp in Afghanistan was nicknamed “Monster” and “King of Torture” and was reported to torture prisoners including poking bound prisoners in the face with his penis and threatening them with sexual assault. He was put on trial and acquitted of all charges.