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TIL a song called FIVE MINUTES which begins with the recording made of then-US-President Ronald Reagan's "We begin bombing in five minutes" joke speech, which is then sampled and looped throughout the remainder of the track.

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pYaPG TIL that Sigourney Weaver only earned $35,000 for Alien (1979) but got $1,000,000 and a share of the profits for Aliens (1986)
LQlJd TIL there could have been volcanic activity on the moon during the time of the dinosaurs. The large dark patches on the lunar surface that give shape to the moon’s “face” are called maria, and they’re thought to be the remains of volcanic activity on the moon that started 3.5 billion years ago.
e06OD TIL that when Queen performed for the first time in Australia, at the Sunbury Pop Festival in 1974, they were continuously booed by the crowd, they went on to finish their set with Freddie Mercury yelling to the crowd "When we come back to Australia, Queen will be the biggest band in the world!"
YpdZA TIL, Joe Montana sued his ex-wife Moses for "violating his 'copyright and privacy rights'" after Moses "sold a bunch of letters and memorabilia from [Montana's] college days at Notre Dame", back in 2008.
p8rO4 TIL: US Marines attempted to make Ice Cream in the Pacific by flying tubs of canned milk and cocoa up to 30,000 ft+ while under fire.