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0dbx5 TIL Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was written by Ian Fleming, who is best known for creating James Bond
8aDJG TIL that while Mickey Mouse's debut Steamboat Willie is now one of the most famous cartoons ever made, the main feature attached to it, Gang War, was completely forgotten and is now lost.
6aKZ TIL The Supreme Court unanimously decided that tomatoes were vegetables
LQ1ld TIL Billy Shaw of the Buffalo Bills is the only player ever inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame without ever playing in the NFL.
pYY6N TIL that the movie "Jaws" used an engineless, fiberglass boat that could "sink on command" and resurface. The Orca II was a replica of the wooden Orca, a real boat used as Quinn's shark hunting ship at the end of the film. Pneumatic tubes tipped barrels mounted below Orca II to fill up and sink it.