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TIL Anthony Hopkins Was Such A Bad Alcoholic That He Once Woke Up In Arizona With No Memory Of How He Arrived…

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LnX0 TIL in the mid-1980s, before digital circuitry became affordable, Nissan used tiny vinyl records for their voice warning system (to tell drivers doors were open, for example)
grP0L TIL about Ulrich Larsen. A Danish former chef, who ended up being a mole in North Korea. The North Koreans almost started a weapons factory disguised as a luxury resort on an island in Uganda. He was also offered to buy SCUD-missiles.
8a1oX TIL that the liquid in a bottle of perfume costs on average roughly $2 to make
8a5rZ TIL of the Fieschi Letter from 1327, which claims that King Edward II was not murdered as always assumed but changed clothes with a servant, killed the gate-keeper where he was imprisoned and escaped to exile in Europe. The letter was rediscovered 500 years later.
XNpX TIL that coral reefs once thought completely dead from heat, bleaching, CO2 induced ocean acidification, and other stressors can recover faster than anyone thought in what’s called the Phoenix Effect