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TIL as part of the plan to keep the design of Godzilla from the 1998 movie a secret, Sony sent out fake designs to marketing partners to see who was loyal. Fruit of the Loom leaked the design and lost their Godzilla license.

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611Q TIL in 1976, a struggling Princeton undergrad wrote his junior term paper on how to make an atomic bomb, using information he gathered from physics textbooks and declassified documents. He got an A in the class, but never got his paper back because it was seized by the US government.
eplL TIL theres a woman from Memphis that grows fingernails instead of hair…
N7Le1 TIL Interstellar, the film, contributed to our scientific understanding of black holes. When they ran a specially designed engine for producing CGI, they saw what they thought was a graphic bug. What it was, however, was imagery of what black holes actually look like.
kOGG1 TIL that in April 1975, Major Buang Lee of the South Vietnamese Air Force became the first and only pilot to land a Cessna on an aircraft carrier, the USS Midway
nXvY TIL a Slovenian man named Martin Strel has swum the complete lengths of the Danube River, the Mississippi River, the Yangtze River, and the Amazon River.