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TIL that flying cars were invented in 1954

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kJLMg TIL Michael Jordan told director Ben Affleck that Viola Davis "has to" play his mom in Affleck's film Air. Casting Davis in a film was a lifelong career ambition for Affleck. When she said yes, he concluded that "a lot of it had to do with me being like, 'Michael Jordan wants you to play his mom.'”
rpEM TIL: Lindsey Stirling was told on national TV that she was ultimately unmarketable, and that her violin and dance routine couldn’t fill a theater in Vegas
v1rgx TIL there is a real (extinct) species called "Crash Bandicoot". The genus is "Crash" and its only species is "Bandicoot"
LkRkZ TIL about the Interrobang (‽). A punctuation mark that should be used in place of ?!, ?!?, or any other such combination. It was first proposed for use in 1962 by the head of an advertising agency who simply believed it looked better to use only a single punctuation mark.
DQBMV TIL that scientists discover an average of 18,000 new species of life every year.