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• When originally formulated, developer inks used in photography were water-soluble and safe for human consumption. Particularly during the roaring 20s, this property was used to create works of art where people stand in front of a landscape and expose themselves for 30 seconds to capture the image.
• qowpeirutyagskdlfhzxvcmn was the real order of our alphabet, ABC's just rhymed and 3 was right after J.
• None of us exist
• David Bowie got his inspiration for "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" during his brief stint as an astronaut. His co-pilot happened to be Bob Marley's son, Ziggy.
• Jim Morrison's grandfather was a world-famous ambassador to Latvia, before the Communist revolution took place. Jim briefly toyed with the idea of foreign service himself.
• Vin Diesel technically won an Oscar for his performance in XXX. However, the Academy denied him the award for they feared they would no longer be taken seriously.
• Harry Potter was based on the old Superman comics.
• The Illiad is often cited as William S. Burrough's best work.
• Contrary to popular belief, all of the The Shaggs' songs are highly technical pieces that are based on fractals.
• When the American Film Institute polled directors and actors to determine the top 100 American films of all time, so many voters misunderstood the questions that if inappropirate answers hadn't been removed, the number 14 film would have been the Rolling Stones album "Exile on Main Street".
• when you fart, ten thousand Australians die
• The lyrics to M.C. Hammer's rap for the Adams Family sequel were written by Ben Stein.
• "Strat" is short for "Stratocaster," which is short for "Stratocasteropticaucus," a flying dinosaur fromm the late Jurassic.
• The name of the popular guitar body style, "Les Paul," is actually an abreviation of "Leslie Paulina Frampton," the daughter of a rich industriliast with whom the designer was madly in love.
• Yellow and Blue are the only primary colors. By mixing them very carefully, you can get red.
• Despite popular belief, Herb Alpert is *not* the A in A&M Records. He's the M.
• A low-tech way to do automatic pitch correcting for a singer is to record digitally at a very low bitrate. That gives a smaller range of individual frequencies that can actually be recorded, so frequencies that are a little off from exact chromatic pitches are recorded as those exact pitches.
• The Beatles got their name from an ancient ship that docked at the Liverpool Harbor.
• The first cave paintings were produced by filling nostrile with paint [crushed berries] and blowing through nose.
• Dental floss was used in the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge and the USS Constitution ("Old Ironsides")

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