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TIL Character Actor Crispin Glover made an album called The Big Problem ≠ The Solution. The Solution = Let It Be in 1989, with songs about barking clowns, a rap about masturbating, and a Nancy Sinatra cover

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E1JXV TIL that Eric Stolz was the original Marty McFly in Back to the Future, but was replaced by Michael J. Fox about a month into production because director Robert Zemeckis "felt that he wasn't getting what he needed from Stoltz."
WWkN TIL years ago DirecTV was widely pirated. The piracy ‘war’ largely ended through a 'trojan horse’ attack that destroyed most hacked access cards. To add a little 'spice’, DirecTV’s “Black Sunday” attack rewrote the first 8 bytes of the card to read “GAMEOVER”.
QKy9 TIL that Alec Guinness, the actor who played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original trilogy, hated the film and described it as “fairy tale rubbish” and persuaded George Lucas to kill off Obi-Wan because he “couldn’t go on speaking those bloody awful, banal lines” and he “had enough of the mumbo jumbo”.
X0EZr TIL Cards used in the Jacquard loom led to computer technology.
e0RO4 TIL the Netherlands is a leader when it comes to food production due to innovations in agricultural techniques which drastically improve efficiency. Growing a kg of tomatoes in the Netherlands uses 9.1L of water (1.1 gallon/lb). The global average is over 210L of water per kg (25.6 gallon/lb)