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TIL that Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) shows up in Christian documents from the Middle Ages and was even canonized as St. Josaphat

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KY86R TIL the main reason why Francis Ford Coppola used The Doors’ song "The End" at the beginning of his 1979 film “Apocalypse Now”, was because he found it humorous to use a song titled "The End" at the start of the movie.
d8woj TIL That behind the scenes of ALF, tensions were very high. Everyone hated being on the show much because ALF always had the best lines and there was always long shooting schedules because ALF the puppet was robotically moved. On the last day of filming, the cast quickly left without saying goodbye.
XEGr6 TIL Concorde burned up 94 tonnes of fuel getting from London to New York and a whopping 2 tonnes simply taxiing onto the runway
eQ0E TIL that the Joseon Dynasty developed cannons called “chongtong” that were capable of firing steel missiles over 500 meters, and that these missiles resemble modern ship-to-ship missiles.
1m7D TIL In 1994 IBM created and sold the Simon Personal Communicator, it was the first cellular phone to include telephone and PDA features in one device.