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TIL Henry Ford had two automobile companies fail to nothing before founding the Ford Motor Company which delivered the Model A in 1904

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xVDZB TIL Guillermo Del Toro's "pale man" from Pan's Labyrinth represents "all institutional evil feeding on the helpless. He’s thriving now...these are pale man times"
ANPX7 TIL that C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley both died on November 22nd, 1963. However, their deaths were overshadowed by the more prominent death of John F. Kennedy on the same day.
w5YY TIL that over 56% of the world’s coastline is in Canada
8aVgP TIL that the heart can still beat outside the body for about 4 hours without medical intervention, that's because the heart is not regulated by the brain, the heartbeats are sparked by its own natural pacemaker.
gM9y TIL many silent actors succumbed to a condition known as “Klieg eyes” where their retinas were damaged due to the heavy lighting required by film stocks of the time