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TIL Kirsten Dunst voiced Kiki in the American dub of “Kiki’s Delivery Service” and it is her highest rated movie at 100%.

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oBvgA TIL One of the stated purposes of the US Interstate highway system was to provide access in order to defend the United States during an attack.
ADGx4 TIL it costs NYC $209,000 per year to house one inmate at Rikers Island
BgxBr TIL about the Montevideo Maru, a Japanese naval ship sunk in 1942 by a U.S. submarine whose crew was unaware it was carrying over a thousand prisoners of war. It remains Australia's worst-ever maritime disaster, and the wreck was discovered only last week.
b6yyp TIL that the Manhattan Project produced a short book on how to build an atomic bomb. "The Los Alamos Primer" is 24 pages and completely declassified. Freeman Dyson wrote that the guide should not have been published, because it tells readers that "bomb designing is fun".
nNKG TIL that one of the first albums to have a parental advisory sticker was Frank Zappa’s ‘Jazz From Hell’ in 1986. The album is completely instrumental.