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TIL that Disney tried to change the film "Dead Poets Society" to be about dancing instead of poetry, and to rename it "Sultans of Swing".

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rR88o TIL that mouthwash Listerine is named after Joseph Lister, an early pioneer of antiseptic medicine.
x65vo TIL in 1958 a nighttime training exercise resulted in a mid-air collision between an F-86 Sabre and a B-47 Startojet. To save the aircraft, the B-47 crew ditched their nuclear payload to save weight. The undetonated weapon is believed to have sunk near Tybee Island and remains unrecovered today.
ZaQo TIL that in 1990 the Galileo Spacecraft, in an experiment designed by Carl Sagen, passed by Earth to see if life could be detected from space. The answer? Barely, but yes.
P1pVV TIL The first product scanned with a bar code scanner was a packet of Wrigley's chewing gum. it happened on Marsh Supermarket, Ohio.
nenoo TIL that our Milky Way galaxy is currently in the process of ripping apart and absorbing another galaxy called the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy. By the time it’s finished this game of galactic Mortal Engines, it will have added 1 billion stars to our galaxy.