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TIL that there is a stretch of road on Route 66 that plays America the Beautiful if you drive on the rumble strips.

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W6Zd TIL J.R.R. Tolkien sold the film rights to the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy for less than $20,000 in 1969. The films have grossed more than $6 billion worldwide.
lyyK TIL that Nutella uses 25% of the world’s supply of hazelnuts.
kODP7 TIL that there is a small increase in number of heart attacks globally at the start of daylight savings time in spring (when people lose an hour's sleep) and a corresponding decrease at the end
Koya TIL The Simpsons Movie was banned in Burma because the censor board prohibits the colors yellow and red in film
E1Roo TIL that it was Napoleon’s army that discovered the Rosetta Stone. Which was the key to unlocking the code of Egyptian hieroglyphics, a language that had been dead for 2000 years.