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TIL Ray Bradbury wrote a short story about a giant, firebreathing lizard which was made into a 1953 film. This film inspired a Japanese producer to make Godzilla in 1954

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606W TIL that in the 1960s Chrysler developed a car powered by a gas turbine engine. It could rev to 44,500 rpm, sounded like a vacuum cleaner and could run on diesel, petrol, kerosine, jet fuel and as the President of Mexico proved, tequila.
pYvVO TIL Why ASML is the most important tech company you’ve never heard of
MeMrb TIL that the Secret Service has its own ink library which contains over 11,000 samples of ink, from all over the world, dating back to the 1920s.
gM8jL TIL the 1972 film Deliverance brought a surge of whitewater rafting tourists to Rabun County, Georgia, where the movie was filmed. It is now a $20 million per year industry in the region.
voXK TIL: Woolly mammoths were still around when they were building the pyramids. In school they taught woolly mammoths were around during the ice age, tens if thousands of years ago, in fact they were around a lot longer than that, up until 1700B.C. 900 years after the first pyramid began construction.