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TIL that new tires have little rubber hairs on them as a byproduct of the manufacturing process and that those hairs do not have any practical purpose or benefit for the tire.

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x6o5o TIL the KGB once smuggled a Sidewinder missile from West Germany by mailing it in pieces to Moscow. An agent earlier broke it through the back window of his Mercedes to drive back from the airbase, marked with a red cloth as required by law. He had brought it down the entire runway in a wheelbarrow.
XE4oP TIL Ridley Scott tried to make Gladiator (2000) an authentic representation of Ancient Rome. An early script had Maximus doing a product endorsement for olive oil, which was historically accurate for famous gladiators to do, but the detail was left out in later scripts for being too unbelievable.
yy9e TIL that baseball hand signals, such as safe and out, were invented by a 19th century deaf player named Dummy Hoy so he could comprehend what was going on in his games.
yKjv TIL That Scientists have created cells out of metal, and they can evolve.
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