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TIL Hunter S Thompson was a uncredited co-creator of Nash Bridges and collected royalties from the show

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lQ7r TIL In 1903, a barge tipped somewhere off the coast of Staten Island, sending most of its 7,700 silver-and-lead bars to the bottom. Most bars were recovered right away, but some 1,400 bars, valued at up to $20 million today were never found.
yVD4J TIL An estimated 300+ 1969 Dodge Chargers were used while filming the Dukes of Hazzard TV series. They went through about 2 per episode.
6X6J TIL that the aliens from the movie franchise Alien were based off of deep sea creatures found in Earth’s oceans.
4rr6 TIL Lana Del Rey called feminism boring..“For me, the issue of feminism is just not an interesting concept. I’m more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what’s going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities.”
neLX9 Today I learned about Joyce Carol Vincent - a young woman who died and lay undiscovered in her flat for 3 years surrounded by undelivered christmas presents she had purchased for friends and family.