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TIL: Howard Hughes used to make hotel staff hide sandwiches for him in trees

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9wLaB TIL every LEGO minifigure had the exact same head shape for the first 21 yrs of minifigure production, limiting what characters it could do. It wasn't until 1999 & the Jar Jar Binks minifigure for Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace that LEGO introduced sculpted head pieces for its minifigures
D1oEj TIL in the 50-plus year history of the Japanese bullet train system, carrying over 5.3 billion passengers, there has been not a single passenger fatality or injury due to train accidents.
WyEB TIL that famous philosopher Bertrand Russell contemplated suicide as a teenager but chose against it because he wanted to learn more about mathematics.
8BRK TIL the Hungarian national anthem, “Himnusz,” is an 8 verse lament about the sadness, despair, lost wars, corpses, and destroyed cities suffered by the Hungarian people because of their sinfulness.
m89M TIL that the A5 Processor for Apple’s iPhone and iPad is actually manufactured by Samsung.