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TIL H.R. Giger was invited to design the Batmobile for Batman Forever but his design was rejected: His unique "X" shaped design was to include articulated front legs/mandibles, retractable fins, and gatling gun emplacements on each of the four pods on the sides of the vehicle

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X0LwQ TIL during making of the first Hitman game, developers of Danish video game company IO Interactive kept Agent 47 bald because it was too difficult for them to do hair on the main character back then.
8a4Oa TIL That to communicate through the network, trees send chemical, hormonal and slow-pulsing electrical signals, which scientists are just beginning to decipher.
kORYe TIL in 1963 Robert Kearns invented the intermittent windshield wiper, presented it to Ford Motor Co. and was hired. Ford fired him and took his technology. He sued Ford for patent infringement and after 12 yrs. of litigation, at times without a lawyer, the court awarded Kearns 10.3 M dollars.
nea9d TIL 40 real squirrels were trained to crack nuts for Charlie & the Chocolate Factory instead of using CGI
Jy81 TIL a volcanologist died at an observation camp when Mount St. Helens exploded in 1980. He had agreed, for one day, to fill in for a colleague who was rotating out a third scientist based at the camp. The man rotated out died 11 years later during the Mount Unzen (Japan) eruption.