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TIL The brazen bull was invented in Athens between 570 and 554 BC during the reign of Phalaris, tyrant of Acragas, Sicily,. The first test subject was the guy that built it.

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wLbEP TIL Éamon de Valera broke out of prison by getting a mold of a key in a candle and using a cartoonist, sent an image of the key in a cartoon to his contacts who made the key and sent it in baked inside a cake. It was too small, so they sent another before just sending him the tools to make a key.
ZnAB TIL of the Croydon Facelift: Hair is pulled back and tied up so tightly that it pulls the face tighter. (Victoria Beckham wore the style on ‘American Idol’.) The hairstyle is also known as the 'council house facelift’ or 'Essex facelift’ in the UK, because of its association with “low class” women.
R75Pj TIL The U.S state Texas is roughly 10% larger than France and almost twice as large as Germany.
jamM TIL that President Herbert Hoover and his wife Lou both spoke fluent Mandarin Chinese. They communicated in the language whenever they wanted to keep their conversations private around guests and the press.
VMrLB TIL Peter Jackson originally pitched adapting the Lord of the Rings into two movies. That was changed by Bob Shaye, head of New Line who asked “Why would you do two films when there’s three books? Why wouldn’t you do three films?”