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TIL the actor who played Ned Ryerson, had a garage band that went to a studio to record a couple of songs and had a local kid to lay down the lead guitar.....14 year old Stevie Ray Vaughn.

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N7Zxe TIL about the Wow! Signal, "the strongest candidate for an alien radio transmission ever detected." It was buried by news of Elvis's death the following day.
G01N TIL during the siege of Stalingrad the commanding officer Friedrich Paulus was promoted to Field Marshal with the expectation he commit suicide rather than surrender. After he surrendered he was heard saying “I have no intention of shooting myself for a Bohemian corporal”. He lived till 1957.
OoV74 TIL it's unknown where the tomb of Archimedes is located today. The last known record of his tomb was in 75 BC, 137 years after Archimedes had died, when Cicero had found the tomb in a neglected condition and overgrown with bushes, and had the tomb cleaned up.
0ZW1 TIL that along with Leo, Johnny Depp has never won an Oscar.
r64w TIL of Bile Bears which are cruelly “milked” for their liver bile regularly, which is used in traditional Chinese medicine. The bears are stored in cages so small that the bears are unable to turn around or stand for up to 30 years. Most bears eventually die from malignant tumours or starvation.