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TIL The first art left outside of Earth includes a crudely drawn penis made by Andy Warhol.

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kJJGE TIL Napoleon's penis is in a box in New Jersey.
dNgK TIL the producers of The Simpsons considered aborting the series if the second episode’s animation turned out as bad as the first, which was so appalling that after seeing it for the first time, they had to redo 70% of before it could go to air.
4X9Vw TIL in 1963 The Rolling Stones recorded a song just for the use in a Rice Krispies advertisement.
kOVJE TIL that Dwight Eisenhower once wrote that the five most important vehicles used to win WWII were the jeep, the bulldozer, the 2.5 ton truck, the DUKW amphibious car, and the C-47 transport plane, none of which are designed for combat.
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