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TIL that Ridley Scott was almost given the job of designing the Daleks during their first appearance.

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b6YVE TIL: Eumachia was a Roman business woman and priestess, being one of the few wealthy women of the time and funded many public buildings under the practice of euergetism, which is the practice in which high status/wealthy distribute their wealth to the community. Her statue is in the Naples Museum.
mdDo TIL Nikola Tesla, who frequently had his ideas stolen, when asked about it said: “I don’t care that they stole my ideas… I care that they don’t have any of their own.”
wovwM TIL Church's Chicken, which changed their name to Texas Chicken in Malaysia and other Muslim-majority countries, isn't named after a Christian house of worship, it's after founder George W. Church.
DQMJp TIL from the 1970s to 1990s, the South African apartheid government conducted "Project Coast," a program where they investigated using recreational drugs, snake venom, pheromones, bacteria, viruses, heavy metals, pesticides, poisons, and more as biological weapons for both war and crowd control.
PYG0G TIL there is a collection agency that specializes in collecting library late fees, and have collected over $1 billion in fines on behalf of 2,000 libraries