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TIL: The Courthouse Square from “Back to the Future” also appeared in many other iconic films including: “Inherit the Wind,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and “The Music Man.” It also shows up in “Bruce Almighty.”

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E1K17 TIL about "lithopedions", abdominal pregnancies which die and turn to stone
WVrN TIL- That Ben and Jerry’s used to have a policy that no employee could make more than five times what the lowest paid worker was paid.
WD68 TIL In 1964, the inventor Karl Kroyer once filled a sunken ship with 27 million plastic balls to make it lighter and easy to remove. He then tried to patent the idea but failed as examiner found the same method used by Donald duck in a comic book in 1949, 15 years before.
1ad4P TIL of the Movement for the Independence of Sicily, a Sicilian political party thats goal was the annexation of Sicily into the United States. Its best electoral result was in 1947, when it won 8.8% of the votes in the Sicilian regional election and had nine regional deputies elected.
O1O1 TIL it was cheaper to hire an Irishman than a donkey in the Pennsylvania coal mining days of the 1800s. That’s where the insult Donkey to the Irish came from