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TIL the license plate “2GAT123” has appeared in numerous films and TV shows since the 1980s. It is essentially the “555- phone number” of license plates.

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kOO4W TIL that in 'Small Soldiers' the Commando Elite and the Gorgonites were voiced by the casts of the Dirty Dozen and Spinal Tap respectively
W86B TIL The Ghost Army, an army of inflatable tanks and rubber planes (also some real tanks) would stage a presence of force through the battlefield, their job was to create chaos and basically scare the Nazis away. It worked.
aKbJ TIL an Australian infant vanished in 1980 and her mother served prison time for the murder, and 32 years later it was declared she had actually been taken by a dingo.
BAZx TIL Nicolas Cage had magic mushrooms with his cat, Lewis. Seeing Lewis eating the shrooms, Cage responded, “What the heck, I better do it with him.” Cage recalls laying in bed for hours and staring at Lewis, as Lewis stared back. Cage concluded, “and I had no doubt that he was my brother.”
Lk6lr TIL the Epic of Gilgamesh depicts stories that are virtually identical to Adam & Eve and Noah’s Flood, but predates the Bible by at least a thousand years, indicating that the Christian stories are not original but derived from ancient Mesopotamian legend