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TIL Aqua Teen Hunger Force caused a bomb scare in 3 different cities, including Boston

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6Ewgl TIL Best Buy only sells music on vinyl, apparently.
Bmkx TIL That when Jim Carrey starred as the Grinch, it took 9 hours to to apply all the makeup required for the part, which drove Jim to the point of quitting the movie and he had to talk to the CIA about resisting torture.
R5bj6 TIL in Henry Fords' childhood farming was manual. He wanted to "lift the burden of farming from flesh and blood and place it on steel and motors." Ford was the only automotive firm to sell cars, trucks and tractors simultaneously from 1917 to 1928.
4Xd7R TIL about the "Grievance Studies affair" where three academics produced bogus papers to expose how lax academic journals had become. One paper that was accepted and published by the Journal Affilia included long excerpts from Hitlers Mein Kampf where the word "Jew" was replaced with "White Man".
xm0w TIL, that when he was Knighted, the producer of The Beatles Sir George Martin, chose the motto ‘Amore Solum Opus Est’ or 'All You Need is Love’.