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TIL according to Johnny Cash’s first wife, “Ring of Fire” was written not about love, but about “a certain private female body part.”

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8p94 TIL there was the Soviet equivalent to Eurovision called the Intervision Song Contest. Because of a lack of phones, viewers would turn lights on or off if they liked or didn’t like the song. According to load experienced on the electrical network, points were granted accordingly to each contestant.
wLjL6 TIL when British cave dive experts went to Thailand to rescue the lost soccer team, they first had rescue four rescuers who were left behind and forgotten when the cave had to be abandoned due to flooding. The men were asleep on a ledge and had missed the call to evacuate.
QJGk TIL the Dalek voice in Doctor Who (2005) is recorded through a custom analog ring modulator; the BBC were unable to reproduce the original effect digitally.
E1mXP TIL: Lou Pearlman, manager of The Backstreet Boys, and N*SYNC, was running a ponzi scheme with money created by the bands, and shell corporations.
nepBY TIL that the Australian government owns all Koalas like how China owns all pandas.