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TIL before he could start editing and technically enhancing the "Get Back" documentary Peter Jackson first had to listen to 130 hours of audio and watch 57 hours of film footage of the Beatles writing and rehearsing

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jZkN TIL that English speakers pronounce the world “colonel” as “kernel” because we adopted the French pronunciation (coronel), but the Italian spelling (colonello).
wBD1 TIL that the ham, salami, and bologna on a Subway Cold Cut Combo sandwich is turkey-based.
D1JMv TIL that R2-D2 and C-3PO appear as hieroglyphics in the backround of scenes in "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
0xr1 TIL in the 1970s after Boeing fired 63,000 employees in Seattle alone, someone put up this billboard: “Will the last person leaving Seattle - Turn out the lights.”
e8G6 TIL Costco hasn’t changed the price of its $1.50 hot dog/soda combo since the mid-1980s.