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TIL that Crystal Lake, Iowa is home of the worlds largest Bullhead Statue.

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V6EZ TIL that a billionaire heir to the SC Johnson fortune received only 4 months in prison for repeatedly sexually assaulting his 12 year old stepdaughter
5YplB TIL that in 1945 six Americans, five of which were children, were killed in Oregon by a Japanese bomb that was delivered via balloon. They were the only citizens to die by enemy weapon on the American mainland during World War II.
7rZ5M TIL the first movie in color was made already in 1902, the earliest color moving images ever made pre-dating 'Kinemacolor' by eight years. A British cinematographer, Edward Turner's footage of his children was found in a discovery in The National Media Museum in Bradford.
VMKoZ TIL Richard Linklater's "Before Sunrise" was inspired by a young lady he just met, named Amy Lehrhaupt. He tried to contact her for years, but she never appeared, Later he discovered she died before the 1st movie came out. At the of the 3rd movie, on the credits, we can read "Dedicated to to Amy"
KpMB TIL Genghis Khan killed so many people he cleaned about 700 million tons of Carbon from the atmosphere. It may be the first case of man made global cooling.