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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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8mA8 TIL a 2007 lawsuit against GM could have brought deadly ignition switch failures to light — but the case was not pursued since Wisconsin law limits liability to $350,000 per death. GM issued a recall 7 years later, and paid $1.475 billion in fines and settlements.
8aPVK TIL Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction, Mission: Impossible) is the voice in the Arby's commercials ("Arby's! We have the meats!")
GY1kE TIL a woman who claimed to be abducted by aliens in 1961 later recreated a star map she remembered and a statistician concluded she had a 1 in 1000 chance of randomly guessing a valid pattern if she was making it all up. It was valid.
yDBw TIL Christians in South Korea have been aggressively attempting to convert the nation to Christianity, even going so far as to burn Buddhist temples and decapitate statues of the Buddha
m1WAP TIL that MythBusters accidentally made an explosive so powerful that they destroyed the footage and alerted the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).