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TIL a “deadbeat” in credit card terms means someone who pays their credit card balance full every month

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NXGYb TIL Speed Racer was based off the 1964 Elvis film "Viva Las Vegas". Tatsuo Yoshida, creator of Mach GoGoGo, stated that this movie was his primary inspiration.
grnaL TIL that the Vatican has a telescope in Arizona
YOBr TIL the first episode of an X-Files spin-off called “The Lone Gunmen”, which aired March 4, 2001, involves a US government conspiracy to hijack an airliner, fly it into the World Trade Center, and blame it on terrorists - thereby gaining support for a new profit-making war
X0ZlQ TIL the SR-71 Blackbird used an Astro-inertial navigation system, a special camera pointed at the sky. Its "blue light" source star tracker could see stars day and night and “was good enough to limit drift to 1,000 ft (300 m) off the direction of travel at Mach 3.”
Z808G TIL The number of men working in a lighthouse in the UK was increased from 2 to 3 following an 1801 incident where one half of a duo died, the other placed him outside and was then driven mad by the wind causing his dead colleagues arm to appear to beckon him.