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TIL that Meatloaf's video for I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) was directed by Michael Bay

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0wJ5 TIL that in 2050, there might be a Japanese elevator to space
rRbP4 TIL 'Turn On' (1969) was the shortest lived show in TV history, being yanked off the air by some affiliates before it even returned from the first commercial break in the first episode. The creators were paid to never air it again.
nwVb TIL During a nuclear scare in 1960, the President of France secretly went to the President of the United States and told him “I do not know what Khrushchev is going to do, nor what is going to happen, but whatever he does…. I want you to know that I am with you to the end.”
XEjwr TIL that 1,418 entrance steps (one for each day the Soviet Union fought in the WWII) of the new 95m-tall “Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces” are forged from melted-down hardware seized from Nazi troops.
p87lb TIL in 1913 and 1914, it was legal in the U.S. to mail children under 50 pounds.