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TIL Edgar Wright conceived "Baby Driver" in 1995 after he envisioned a bank robbery and car chase set to the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion's 1994 song "Bellbottoms", which he used at the film's opening scene. The film features choreography in which the actors' actions synchronize with its soundtrack.

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OoeOY TIL Linus Pauling, a Nobel prize winner in chemistry, was a eugenicist. He urged that human carriers of defective genes have a compulsory visible mark - such as forehead tattoos - to discourage potential mates with the same defect, having kids together.
P7LV TIL that the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bomber has been in continuous service April 1955 and with upgrades are expected to remain in service until at least 2040, a service life of more than 85 years
woKDJ TIL the massive decimation of native populations in the Americas in the 1500s led to vast areas of cultivated land reverting to wilderness. This reforestation in turn contributed to a period of global cooling known as the "Little Ice Age"
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