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TIL Jaws directly contributed to a surge in shark hunting, and consequently a drop in shark populations. Peter Benchley regretted writing Jaws, "Knowing what I know now, I could never write that book today. Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges."

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4k45N TIL the US government in the 1930's tried to make a canal called the "Cross-Florida Barge Canal" that cut through the Florida peninsula to create a shortcut from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean. It was going to have a series of locks like the Panama Canal. It was shut down by Nixon.
7884P TIL Waldo from Where’s Waldo appears in a single frame of the 2006 film Apocalypto, which is set during the fall of the Mayan empire.
kOZxB TIL that while Sputnik was the first man-made object to reach orbit, 13 years earlier the Nazis launched the MW 18014 rocket, the first man-made object to reach outer space.
W70OX TIL Eminem holds the record for fastest rap verse, rapping 11 syllables per second, or 222 words in 30 seconds, in the third verse of his Godzilla.
ANPKn TIL that two time Nobel prize winner Marie Curie was buried in a lead lined coffin, all of her belongings are stored in lead lined boxes and will be radioactive for 1500 years.