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grZ79 TIL musician Frank Zappa's father worked at the Aberdeen Proving Ground where chemical weapons were tested. The family had to store gas masks in the house. This led to Zappa's work frequently referencing biological warfare, disease, and the defense industry.
R7r6j TIL Tyler Perry’s films are so profitable because he uses his own studios (Tyler Perry Studios), which occupy two former Delta Air Lines affiliated buildings including over 200,000 sq ft. of sets and office space. The Walking Dead also utilizes Tyler Perry Studios to film scenes in The Kingdom.
R967 TIL Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli, signed by John Adams, contains the line “The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion”
4XDGb TIL that there is a poem written in 1936 by David Shulman called Washington Crossing the Delaware, a 14-line rhyming sonnet in which every line is an anagram of the title
8aXaX TIL scientists in China found a way to use genetically modified and infertile male mosquitos to wipe out large populations of mosquitos, pave the way of a mosquito-free future for us ????