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dDXbd TIL: On the day of his audition to sing for ACDC, Brian Johnson also sang a Hoover vacuum commercial
E1vGx TIL there is a dialect of Arabic that isn't naturally spoken anywhere, but which is understandable to all speakers of Arabic. While people from Egypt, Iraq, Sudan, Yemen or Syria might not understand each other, they can understand the same news report.
PDKO TIL that before his death, Phil Hartman had expressed an interest in making a live action film about his popular Simpsons character Troy McClure. Many of The Simpsons production staff expressed enthusiasm for the project and offered to help.
dVrZ TIL marijuana has the potential to both treat and promote psychosis, as its two main components (THC and CBD) act very differently on a normal human brain.
OoR5g TIL that more than 95% of all stars which will ever exist have already been born. Star formation is now 30 times lower than at its peak 11 billion years ago.