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TIL: That for certain songs on the album "Tusk", Lindsey Buckingham played a Kleenex box as a snare drum and had Mick Fleetwood overdub his own drums over Buckingham's demos. He would also tape microphones to the studio floor and get into a sort of push-up position to sing.

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X0rEj TIL of Amtor. Edgar Rice Burroughs (author of Tarzan) also wrote a 5-book series set on Venus, which was imagined as a water world. The main character, a human astronaut, meets princesses, becomes a pirate twice in the series, and is crowned a prince after the overthrow of a kingdom.
b6pZ7 TIL The sliding door dates back to atleast the 1st century CE with archeological evidence found in Pompeii.
oLOR TIL billionaires in London are building “Iceberg Mansions” where most of the home is below ground.
R174 TIL the science fiction films ‘Contact’, 'The Fifth Element’, 'Gattaca’, 'Men in Black’, and 'Starship Troopers’, were all released in the same year, 1997
ADvn TIL NASA used less money ($526 billion) in it’s entire existence than the US military used in 2010 ($663 billion)