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TIL power rangers came from a japanese show called super sentai and for their 35th anniversary they made a movie where all 199 of them team up

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v1lmx TIL of the book “Finnegans Wake”. The book is written by James Joyce and is composed of composite words from sixty to seventy world languages. Written over a period of 17 years it is considered to be one of the most difficult works in the Western canon.
P15lJ TIL in 1962 Nick Holonyak Jr. invented & first demonstrated a semiconductor laser diode that emitted visible light which was the forerunner of the first generation of commercial LEDs. In addition, 10 of his 60 former doctoral students have since developed new uses for LED technology.
bPO4 TIL Alexander Graham Bell developed the metal detector as a last ditch effort to locate a bullet lodged in the chest of American President James Garfield in 1881; the attempt was unsuccessful because the metal coil spring bed Garfield was lying on confused the detector.
4Xx6X TIL Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated on June 28th 1914, an event which led to the beginning of the war. Strangely, the Archduke's number plate read: A 111 118, a series that can be read as, Armistice 11 November '18.
0w99j TIL the atheistic Cult of Reason was sponsored by the French revolutionary govt. to replace Catholicism. Notre Dame's altar was dismantled, and provocatively dressed women posed inside representing virtues like Reason. Cemetery gates in France had to bear the inscription "Death is an eternal sleep."