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TIL that during the making of "Thriller" by Michael Jackson, sound engineer Bruce Swedien set up tape recorders around his Great Dane in a barn overnight to record the howls used as sound effects in the song. When the dog didn't howl, it was decided that Jackson would record the howls himself.

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wNZo TIL that the first aerial refueling occurred when Wesley May climbed from a Lincoln Standard to a Curtiss Jenny with a 5 gallon can strapped to his back in 1921.
kJGr5 TIL that the first nuclear reactor explosion happened in 1952 in Chalk River, Ontario, Canada. Nine years before the Argonne reactor and twenty-seven years before Three Mile Island. The second also occurred at Chalk River, in 1958.
oBwRA TIL, the name Aceh(an Indonesian province) is actually an acronym for Arabic-Chinese-European-Hindu. [Source: Extreme Economies by Richard Davies]
woYN7 TIL: my rear ends’ circumference is the length of 9/10ths of Danny Devito
W79x8 TIL: Margaret Thatcher considered Tony Blair “her greatest achievement”