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TIL that Michael Jackson’s famous “lean” in Smooth Criminal was made possible through a special patented “anti-gravity illusion” shoe.

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Jy81 TIL a volcanologist died at an observation camp when Mount St. Helens exploded in 1980. He had agreed, for one day, to fill in for a colleague who was rotating out a third scientist based at the camp. The man rotated out died 11 years later during the Mount Unzen (Japan) eruption.
nW8KP TIL the jones beach water tower (know locally as the pencil) situated in the roundabout in jones beach wantah, ny is modeled after St Mark's Campanile in Venice.
a8DaN TIL Edith Piaf's team and peers originally deemed "La Vie en Rose" weaker than other songs she was working in, and she set it aside for a year before changing her mind and deciding to record it, and then it became the song that made her internationally famous.
KOEo9 TIL that Kevin Smith actually worked at the convenience store in Clerks. He worked all day, and they filmed all night (thus the closed shutters) for 21 straight days. He slept one hour a day during filming. The whole production cost $27k, funded by maxing out credit cards and selling his comic books
1YLX TIL The Winslows from Family Matters had a 2nd daughter named Judy that went upstairs in Season 4 and was never heard from or acknowledged again.