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TIL Vaselina is the Mexican title for the movie Grease

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x6X4B TIL that there are saws specifically made as musical instruments
LpBv TIL when Andrew Niccol directed Lord of War he purchased 3000 real Kalashnikov automatic rifles because they were cheaper than prop guns
PYovg TIL that when emperor Hui of Jin ( 259-307) was informed that his people were starving from a rice famine, he replied with the famous chinese version of let them eat cake: "why don't they eat meat porridge?"
gMyeb TIL Asbestos was commonly used to make false relics as the fire resistance was seen as miraculous. Additionally Charlemagne allegedly had an asbestos tablecloth he threw into fires to impress guests.
Q4Gp TIL Jocelyn Bell Burnell, the astronomer to discover pulsars, was denied the Nobel Prize in preference of her thesis supervisor; a man who believed they were caused by aliens.