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TIL Wizard of Oz's dream plot was added because writers thought audiences are too sophisticated to accept Oz as straight-ahead fantasy.

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jvGX TIL Mercedes-Benz prepares your ears for noise from crash by playing pink noise just before crash
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ADKG7 TIL Mickey Mouse is nothing but a water molecule.
W0BA TIL that there are growing anti-Korean racist movements in Japan as a result of government’s nationalistic movements
kOZ55 TIL a cubic foot of air weighs .08 lbs. A cubic mile of air weighs around 6 million tons! Now, imagine all that moving across the sky - no wonder storms are violent.