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TIL Jurassic Park almost had a sequel cartoon series in 1994

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XEWAR TIL Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA star, is actually a published novelist and has written about the adventures of Mycroft Holmes, in addition to other works
WDWB TIL of Hitler’s “Supergun”: the V-3 cannon was designed to launch shells over 100 miles (165 km) to bombard London from bunkers on the French coast.
xmyB TIL an MIT professor found such a strong correlation between essay length and SAT score that “if you just graded them based on length without ever reading them, you’d be right over 90 percent of the time.”
laxB TIL that the Happy Birthday song was placed into the public domain in September, 2015.
90Y6 TIL on this day in 1979 the original Sony Walkman was released.