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-PunsWithScissors- t1_iujvakr wrote on October 31, 2022 at 9:47 PM

Reply to TIL Blondie's music video for the 1981 song Rapture featured Jean-Michel Basquiat as Grandmaster Flash did not show up for the video shoot and Basquiat was hired instead. by trifletruffles

This was also the first rap video (… technically) broadcast on MTV.

-PunsWithScissors- t1_isvvrbg wrote on October 19, 2022 at 2:01 AM

Reply to TIL a neutron star in the constellation Sagittarius rotates 716 times per second. by shallowblue

That’s crazy, a real life test bed for lorentz contractions (as they relate to spinning objects). Not to mention other strange gravitational anomalies from an object with such mass spinning at that speed.