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7rvOb TIL The Hubble Telescope is using Spermaceti (whale oil) to lubricate its parts due to whale oil's capacity to withstand extremely cold temperatures without coagulation.
X0jOP Til the opium wars started because China wanted to stop the drugs coming in
NPDJ TIL That Dick Cheney’s wife wrote an erotic lesbian novel and tried to cover it up
x6ZJw TIL that in the early 2000s, Warner Bros. planned to produce a Broadway musical about Batman. Tim Burton would have directed and the music was written by Jim Steinman, best known for writing most of Meat Loaf's hit songs
GAn5G TIL, that Elijah Muhammad was a self proclaimed African American prophet that a minority group of Muslims follow.