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TIL Dusty Springfield helped Led Zeppelin get their record contract.

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BJYW TIL: Discovery’s “Sons of Guns” Star and former owner of Red Jacket is in Jail over child molestation charges, and rape of his own daughter.
Ol8R TIL that at the 2012 International Shooting Grand Prix gold medalist Maria Dmitrienko of Kazakhstan had to listen to the entire parody of O’ Kazakhstan from Borat. The incident resulted from the wrong song being downloaded from YouTube at the last minute. Senior officials of Kazakhstan were furious
Yn1W TIL, that Patrick Stewart was initially considered for the role of Data, and it took weeks of discussion with Robert Justman, Rick Berman, and the casting director to convince Roddenberry that Stewart was the one they had been looking for to sit in the Captain’s chair.
QN7YX TIL the lead singer of the 80s-90s band Living Colour, Corey Glover, was also in the 1986 movie Platoon.
4A6w TIL during WW2, a German fighter ace noticed how a US B17 was too damaged to fight back, escorted it back to Britain, risking execution in the process. After the war, both pilots became best friends, whilst this event symbolised one of the greatest acts of chivalry in war