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TIL the Hindenburg was designed for helium but the US had a monopoly on helium and banned its export

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D15oY TIL Burger King filed an official complaint against the movie “It” and tried to get it banned from theaters, claiming unlawful free advertising for McDonald’s since Pennywise is “an exact replica” of Ronald McDonald, thus promoting the rival restaurant.
RvaQ TIL that “Interstellar” has the most footage ever shot using 15/70mm IMAX cameras for a film, and, due to the film industry’s rapid conversion to digital projection formats, will potentially be the last feature film ever to be projected on 15/70mm IMAX film.
R50L6 TIL that only around 15% of French words are Frankish in origin
klxE TIL according to the FBI’s 2007 statistics, interracial violent crime is at least 8x more likely to be black on white than white on black. The study found over 430,000 instances of black on white robberies, murders, assaults, etc., compared to about 55,000 white on black violent crimes
kOQWE TIL that the city in the world with the most chess grandmasters per capita is Beersheba in southern Israel, with one grandmaster per every 23,000 residents (in comparison, Moscow has one grandmaster per every 170,000 residents, and St. Petersburg has one grandmaster per 215,000 residents)