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TIL That Spaceballs was originally going to be titled Planet Moron, but was changed when a film titled Morons from Outer Space was released; Spaceballs, despite the assumed innuendo, was a result of needing “space” in the title and Brooks considering it one of his trademark “screwball” comedies.

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JOy1 TIL that in 1980, a Texaco oil rig drilled into the top of a salt mine underneath Lake Peigneur in Louisiana, causing the lake to drain into the sinkhole – swallowing 11 barges – and a nearby canal to reverse direction. All 55 miners in the salt mine escaped. The lake is now permanently saltwater.
daZ7 TIL India is launching its mass electronic surveillance program in 2014. It will give 9 Indian govt. agencies—incl. the tax dept—the power to access, in real-time, phone conversations, text, emails, web search data & social media activity WITHOUT the approval of the courts or parliament.
VMDdB TIL that due to an intense shift to wartime production, America only produced 139 civilian automobiles throughout the Second World War.
VMe44 TIL Scott Joplin the man who revolutionized the way piano is played was turned away from backing of financial suitors because he was black and it didn't suit them. He ended up contracting syphilis and was admitted into a psychiatric hospital. He died ther and his grave was unmarked for 57 years.
BrGgk TIL - "The Holodomor" Was A Man-Made Famine Created By Stalin That Killed Up To 7.5 Million Of His Own People. Soviet Authorities Banned Discussion Of The Disaster And Ordered Historians To Falsify Their Accounts Of It To Uphold Stalin's Legacy