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TIL that Quentin Tarantino dug up and used actual KHJ radio broadcasts from 1968 and 69, along with commercials, for the soundtrack to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. He sifted through 17 hours of airchecks to find the tracks he wanted to put in the film

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xgPw TIL Winston Churchill, along with many of the Royal Navy’s highest ranking men, came very close to death after the ship they were on was fired at by a U-boat with 3 torpedoes. All three struck the hull of the ship, but all failed to explode.
0wRdA TIL Cher hated the song “If I Could Turn Back Time” and only recorded it because songwriter Diane Warren held down her leg and said “You have to record it!” It was released as a single and marked a comeback moment for Cher in 1989.
vPEyK TIL that the domain name "CarInsurance.com" holds the record for being the most expensive domain name ever sold, fetching a price of $49.7 million in 2010.
8elZZ TIL The forerunner to the pressure cooker, the steam digester, was desigend to separate out fats and prepare bones for bone meal.
ANo84 TIL that FDR was presented with a letter opener made out of a Japanese soldiers arm bone by Congressman Francis Walter. After several weeks he returned it and stated that he was unwilling to possess it, and suggested a burial for it