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TIL the same actor (Troy Gentile) plays the young version of Jack Black in both Tenacious D and Nachos Libre.

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N1rN TIL Al-Jazari, a 12th-century Kurdish polymath, invented the crankshaft, piston engine, valve, cam, mechanical clock, combination lock, hydropower driven water supply system, and the first programmable humanoid robot. Leonardo Da Vinci was inspired by his work.
JYQ0k TIL that while Nashville has a beautiful recreation of the Parthenon according to how it would look to the Ancient Greeks, Memphis has the world’s tenth largest pyramid and they decided to put a Bass Pro Shop in it
9Y9e6 TIL Outlaws Bonnie and Clyde would often kidnap people, but drop them off with enough money to get home. After they found out one kidnap victim was an undertaker Bonnie laughed and said he would likely work on her body one day. He did exactly that.
ANJ8o TIL that more than 4.6 billion people use social media globally which is 60% of world population
oRKeE TIL that those plastic wall clocks in schools are actually atomic, and the reason they speed ahead when they get messed up is due to a radio signal from NIST called WWVB