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TIL the US actually made some attempts to use the metric system

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yQydV TIL that the movie "Death Wish III" was changed to "Death Wish 3" because the Cannon Group conducted a survey and found that nearly half of the U.S. population could not read Roman numerals
gro5A TIL Mel Blanc, while having a career almost entirely with Warner Brothers, had two Disney voice rolls: A few hiccups for the mute character Gideon the Cat in Pinocchio (1940), as well as voicing his Looney Tunes characters in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
7r4wr TIL cheese activates the same areas of your brain as cocaine and heroine
gMQJA TIL CDs actually made good money in the old days (this is interesting/shocking as a millennial)
D1rBp TIL that the name of the inventor of the lithium-ion battery (which is fine, but not perfect) is John B Goodenough