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TIL that the font Calibri has been instrumental in exposing document forgeries worldwide, revealing fake documents in cases ranging from the Pakistani 'Panama Papers' to a U.S. bankruptcy filing, because the font didn't exist during the dates the documents claimed to be from

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OGZAL TIL that the jerrycan was invented in Nazi Germany. Jerry, also often phrased as Gerry, was used by the allies when referring to German soldiers. So jerrycan means something like “German can”.
1aDLX TIL when skyscrapers were still in its infancy, a stunt performance called "the Human Fly" became extremely popular across North America, which was when someone (usually with a blindfold) would scale/climb the building without a net, becoming the influence for "wall-crawler" Spider-Man decades later
X0J0r TIL that Irving Berlin is the oldest songwriter to ever have a song they wrote reach the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 charts. In 1983, when Berlin was 95 years old, a version of his song Puttin' On the Ritz by the artist Taco peaked at Number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.
loWMG TIL about the movie C. R. A. Z. Y.. The director spent over 600,000 dollars (nearly 10% of the movie's budget) in acquiring the rights for songs made by bands such as Pink Floyd and Rolling Stones. The rights just for Rolling Stones' 'Symphaty for the Devil' were acquired at the price of $138,000.
b189 TIL the only photos taken at the moment Robert Kennedy was shot were seized by the LAPD, ordered sealed for 20 years, and when finally set to be released were stolen from the car of the courier transporting them