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TIL James Cameron saved Guillermo del Toro’s father from Mexican kidnappers by paying the $1,000,000 ransom

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wNJ1 TIL bananas are actually used for scale… for measuring radioactivity
vQKx TIL the UK’s “God Save the Queen” was the first national anthem and was adopted by other countries such as Russia (until 1833), Germany (until 1918), Iceland (until 1944), Switzerland (until 1961), Liechtenstein and New Zealand. It was played twice before a Liechtenstein-England soccer game in 2003.
xwl0 TIL in 1982 a U of TX student received a C for a paper he wrote in support of the ratification of a 1789 amendment to the constitution regarding Congress’s pay because it was deemed “unrealistic”. In response he started a campaign to ratify it, and 10 years later it became the 27th amendment.
e0yxE TIL Mike Tyson has a TV show where him and a team solve mysteries
5AVB TIL there is a 1909 Penny on Mars, which is used as a part of a Calibration Target on The Curiosity Rover