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TIL: USSR used nuclear bomb to stop gas well blowout in Uzbekistan

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4gLa TIL Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury were going to make a collaborative album but Freddie quit because Jackson demanded his pet llama come into the studio with him.
rRdDo TIL When an image remained on an old computer screen for too long, the image got "burned" into the screen. To stop this from happening, developers created moving images that would "save" the screen from being burned when it was idle. This is where we get the term "screen saver" from.
VMp1p TIL that farmers in USA are hacking their John Deere tractors with Ukrainian firmware, which seems to be the only way to actually own the machines and their software, rather than rent them for lifetime from John Deere.
KYZv4 TIL the most abundant bird in the world is the Red-Billed Quelea, there is an estimated 1.2 billion in the world with flocks in the millions.
7rVkx TIL as composer Mike Greene was working on the "Bill Nye The Science Guy" theme song, a rap group was also recording inside his studio. He called them over to chant "Bill!" into the mic. It wasn't until the show aired that they knew why.