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TIL Who framed Roger Rabbit is loosely based off of a true conspiracy by General Motors to purchase & dismantle streetcar systems in American cities between 1938-1950

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ne7lo TIL There Are 2 Pieces of Aluminum from the Destroyed World Trade Center on the Surface of Mars. They were quietly built into 2 of the Mars Rovers.
M7G4m TIL that rural Americans used barbed wire to connect their telephones to switchboards since there were no telephone lines.
E1wXw TIL that Chadwick Boseman wrote a play in 2005 called Deep Azure. It was written in lyrical verse and focused on a young black woman dealing with an eating disorder in the wake of her fiance's death. Boseman turned it into a screenplay in 2008, and wanted to eventually direct it.
aAXo TIL in 1486, Spanish mathematician Paolo Valmes was allegedly burned at the stake for claiming to have solved the quartic equation because it was a against the will of God “such a solution (is) inaccessible to human understanding”
Xak TIL that, although a Rubik’s cube is advertised as having merely billions of permutations, the actual number is 43,252,003,274,489,856,000.