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TIL in the 1960s the USAF brought cats into a weightless environment

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4XaVb TIL Kaiser Wilhelm II drew up plans to invade the United States in 1897. The plan called for an attack on Boston and New York in order to neuter American power in the Pacific.
p87p4 TIL The phone number from Glenn Miller bands song "Pennsylvania 6-5000", is still in use, and is in fact the oldest working phone number. Has been working since 1930's. It connects you to Hotel Pennsylvania.
Mxn7 TIL that while Japan is 62nd in terms of land size and 10th in terms of population, it has the 3rd largest economy in the world. Not only that, but it has the 2nd lowest homicide rate in the world, and 2nd highest life expectancy.
E164x TIL that one controversial scene in Hitchcock's Psycho was when Marion flushed the money down the toilet because "no flushing toilet had appeared in mainstream film and television in the United States at that time".
5YnO8 TIL that if you fall asleep on a Tarantino set they will take a picture of you with a 3ft. dildo named "Big Jerry" next to your face and put it on the wall of shame. If you take it it down, it gets enlarged and put up again. If you take it down again, it gets printed on t-shirts for the whole crew.