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[TIL] Frank Herbert felt that Star Wars was a ripoff of Dune and considered suing George Lucas

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W4rB TIL when a city in Indiana replaced all their signaled intersections with roundabouts, construction costs dropped $125,000, gas savings reached 24k gallons/year per roundabout, injury accidents dropped 80%, and total accidents dropped 40%.
5V7nP TIL the area around Palm Springs, California, one of the hottest, driest places on earth, is sitting on over 100 years worth of water even if they did not receive another drop from any other source. It's 13,000 feet deep and has enough to supply 83 million people a year, yet only 436,000 live there.
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oRNg7 TIL that the famous author Thomas Pynchon has avoided publicity during his fifty-year career to the point that almost all known photos of him are from the 1950s. However, he voiced himself in two episodes of The Simpsons, where his dialogue consisted entirely of puns on the titles of his books.