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TIL Rami Malek watched the YouTube video of Freddie Mercury’s Live Aid performance (1985), over 1500 times in preparation for the film Bohemian Rhapsody.

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grAjX TIL "How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming" is a memoir by Mike Brown, the American astronomer most responsible for the reclassification of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet. It is an account of the events surrounding the redefinition of 'planet' that eventually changed the status of Pluto.
ewV4 TIL that when you open the menu of the Blu-Ray version of Fight Club, the film instead shows the menu of the film Never Been Kissed for a few seconds, momentarily tricking the audience into believing they purchased the wrong movie.
7JPp Til Kevin Smith is Vice President of The Wayne Foundation, which fights against sex trafficking and exploitation of children. The name was his idea.
b9PYj TIL...It costs approximately $7.5 million in funding per astronaut per day to be aboard the International Space Station
oBn0R TIL a Dutch man named Jan de Doot, in 1651, removed his own bladder stone with a kitchen knife. He pulled it out through an incision he made in his perineum. It was the size of an egg and weighed a quarter of a pound. He lived for years after, and had the stone plated in gold.