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TIL Spy Kids is on the National Film Registry, being added in 2024

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4kLW5 TIL that Post first made Pop-Tarts, as the company had invented a process for dehydrating food and enclosing it in foil to keep it fresh, and they were called Country Squares. Because Post had revealed Country Squares before they were ready for market, Kellogg used the idea and created Pop-Tarts.
4v8a TIL that the Eiffel Tower is not painted one uniform color. The darker top gradually turns to the lighter bottom so that it is perceived to be the same color.
nVZB TIL players who completed the games Ultima III to Ultima VII could report their wins to Lord British (Richard Garriott/Origin) and receive a Certificate of Completion in the mail. Today these certificates are highly sought-after collector’s items.
ae59 TIL that to show how Classical Chinese had become an impractical language, linguist Chao Yuen Ren wrote a 92-character poem in which every syllable has the sound “shi”. The poem “Shī Shì shí shī shǐ” translates to “Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den”.
OGarL TIL Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Nixon, Kissinger and Tito have all been nominated for a Nobel peace prize