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TIL: Wealthy Chinese couples use American women to give birth to… fully Chinese babies

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Egkg0 TIL that in 1991, The filming of "Das Boot" was delayed for several weeks, because someone had rented the submarine movie prop to American filmmaker for his own film shooting in the area. This filmmaker was Steven Spielberg and the film he was shooting was Raiders of the Lost Ark.
gMNeD TIL the Law and Order "clang" sound is actually 6-7 separate sounds, including the sound of 500 Japanese men stomping on a wooden floor.
LQ1pd TIL that the inventor of leaded gasoline knew there were viable alternatives to prevent engine knock at a similar cost, but they couldn't be patented like tetraethyl lead could.
Be5W TIL that on Christmas Eve in 2008, SpaceX and Tesla were literally hours from bankruptcy until Elon Musk was able to secure $20M from investors in those final hours. Two days later, SpaceX won a contract with NASA worth $1.6B.
p8bgN TIL about "Princess Caraboo", an impostor who feigned being a princess from a far off island and fooled an entire British town before being found out after a few months.