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

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BY8x TIL that the US government during WW2 asked the press to avoid discussing “polonium, uranium, ytterbium, hafnium, protactinium, radium, rhenium, thorium, deuterium”. Only uranium was secret, for the Manhattan Project, but was listed with the other elements to hide its importance.
R5d8w TIL Mozart composed a song called "Lick Me In The A**" - and by extension, we're much more prudish now about bodily humour than we were in the past.
GYKkJ TIL Who Let The Dogs Out by the Baha Men is a cover of a song that came out a year before it in Trinidad
GAywg TIL the world record for farthest long-range rifle shot was set in 2022 at 4.4 miles on the 69th shot, defeating the previous record of 4 miles in 2019, which was also on the 69th shot
MeawB TIL a Bible museum in Ohio saved money on its displays by using a discarded Tom Cruise wax figure as Jesus.