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TIL William Sessions (FBI director until 1993) became a lawyer for the Russian mob's international leader

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d8ky9 TIL: Godzilla's roar was created by dragging a resin-coated leather glove along the loosened strings of a double bass.
grwM9 TIL seven of the thirty-nine signers of the US Constitution were not native to The Thirteen Colonies: Pierce Butler, Thomas Fitzsimons, James McHenry, and William Paterson were born in Ireland, Robert Morris in England, James Wilson in Scotland, and Alexander Hamilton in the West Indies.
Po7V TIL The Concorde supersonic jet stretched during flight due to the heat it generated. On its final flight the crew placed their hats into a crevice in the floor which appeared during the flight, as the aircraft cooled the crevice closed, permanently sealing their hats in the aluminum airframe.
weD8 TIL that Pearson (a London textbook company) makes $90 million per year to make the state of Texas standardized test (this does not include profit from textbook sales). Every few years they change the contents of the test so that school are forced to buy new books for the new curriculum.
441R TIL the world could run out of helium in 25 years…bad news for MRI machines, radiation detection machines and clowns