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TIL that in the German-language version of 'Airplane' (1980), the Barbara Billingsley jive scene was dubbed in a Bavarian dialect that other German speakers have difficulty understanding. The joke is as effective in the dubbed version as in the English original.

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ADeOd TIL Godzilla was originally created as a metaphor for the the relationship between humans and nuclear weapons. Its skin is not based on reptile scales but the burn wounds found on the survivors of the Hiroshima bombing.
E10RX TIL the Ebola Virus should be called Yambuku fever, since that was the village in Zaire where it was identified in 1976 by Peter Piot, a Belgian scientist. Piot decided to name it after the river Ebola, 60 miles from Yambuku, to avoid stigmatizing the village by giving its name to a deadly disease.
mAJP TIL that Dr. Seuss’s wife thought the Cat in the Hat movie was so bad that she forbid any more live action films of his books.
BrB7L TIL that in 1957, 69% of Americans polled by Gallop reported that religion was increasing in influence; by the late 1960s the figure was less than 20%.
D1dXj TIL about Alexander Bogdanov, a Russian physician who experimented with blood transfusion to gain eternal youth. He died after injecting himself with blood from a student infected with malaria and tuberculosis, who also may have been the wrong blood type.