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TIL - The artist with the record for most musical appearances on SNL is David Grohl with 14

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BAXD TIL: Seventeen minutes of lost footage from 2001: A Space Odyssey was recovered from a Kansas salt mine
a8YNZ TIL humans can have a form of echolocation.Just by clicking their tongue or simply snapping their fingers they can know where they are, or where to go.About 30 percent of blind people use this with their stick that most use. Even people who aren't blind can do this with lots of patience and training
mgKY TIL Adam Savage was once called by the FBI bomb squad because he left a voicemail on a wrong number about making a “thermal detonator”
PYrlV TIL High tech car manufacturers user ostrich feathers to clean the dust off chassis before painting because "There is nothing man-made that will remove dust particles as well as natural ostrich feather"
awanZ TIL about the Quadro Tracker, a metal antenna hinged to a hollow plastic handle bought by police in the 90s for $400-$8000/unit. The manufacturer claimed the antenna would swivel to point towards a sought object or person. The fraud was exposed in 1996 and the company executives acquitted in 1997.