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TIL that James Dyson, partly supported by his wife's salary as an art teacher, spent five years and made about 5,127 prototypes until the launch of the famous vacuum cleaner that would not lose suction as it picked up dirt.

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wLmKP TIL that the two winners of the 1980 Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, Paul Siderman and Joe Baldini, only ate 9 hot dogs each. By comparison, Joey Chestnut ate 74 hot dogs to win the 2018 contest.
4XV0b TIL Sofia Coppola wrote the lead of Lost in Translation, for Bill Murray. She didn't know him, spent a year trying to track him down, including asking random people who knew him through golf. Eventually she showed him the script, but he didn’t commit. She flew to Japan to film not sure if he’d show.
xVjm1 TIL a cow in Poland escaped on its way to the slaughterhouse, broke through a metal fence, swam to a nearby island, and was allowed to live there after its owner gave up trying to recapture it.
bGvZ TIL “Where the Wild Things Are” was originally going to be “Where the Wild Horses Are” until Maurice Sendak started working on it and discovered he couldn’t draw horses
415R TIL that MIT students designed an application that will randomly generate a nonsense academic paper; one of these generated papers was actually accepted to the 2005 World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.