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TIL that the “voice” of Gizmo from the movie Gremlins, was done by Howie Mandel

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J1KYB TIL About King Kahekili of Maui, and about how he Tatooed half his body black and nearly beat Kamehameha at Uniting the Hawaiian islands
0wYR5 TIL to reduce honking in India, researchers placed flashing red "Sad Face" buttons in cars that beeped every time a driver honked. In these tests, honking was reduced by 61%
GYP8J TIL Casey Kasem declined to reprise his role as Shaggy in "Scooby Doo on Zombie Island" because he had recently gone vegan and wanted that reflected in the character, which was not upheld. This resulted in Billy West's one and only credit for portraying Shaggy.
jNPPX TIL that English surpassed Chinese as the most spoken language in the world in 2017 by 20 million people, according to Ethnologue
rNGAd TIL Project A119, a top-secret plan developed in 1958 by the United States Air Force, the aim of which was to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon as a show of force to the USSR. A young Carl Sagan worked on the project.