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TIL fridge number settings are power, not temperature

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MBg8 TIL due to name confusion, the staff of Slovak and Slovenian embassies meet once a month to exchange wrongly-addressed mail.
xQp1 TIL David Bowie was born Davy Jones but changed his name to Tom Jones to avoid confusion with the Monkees front-man. Two weeks later, Tom Jones released ‘It’s Not Unusual’ forcing him to change it again, this time to Bowie.
OEx6 TIL that after the Tienanmen Square Massacre, the Chinese government billed the families of the protesters for the cost of the bullets used to kill their loved ones.
Gwd5 TIL Artificial grass got the name “AstroTurf” because the first professional team to play on it was the Houston Astros.
OGPGe TIL that in the music video for “YMCA”, the Village People do not preform the iconic dance, as it was suggested to the band by Dick Clark on “American Bandstand” six months after the video was shot.