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TIL a 90s "Watchmen" movie almost happened where Sam Hamm (Batman) wrote, Joel Silver (Matrix) produced, Terry Gilliam (Monty Python) directed, Arnold Schwarzenegger played Dr. Manhattan, and David Bowie was Rorschach. And the ending would've had Manhattan use his powers to prevent his own creation.

mxLlP TIL the voting age in Austria is 16
KAw TIL Jim Henson made hilariously violent muppet-like coffee commercials back in the 1950s
DQxVP TIL that in 1945 Japan attacked the US mainland with hydrogen-filled fire balloons killing 6 US citizens
w9a1 TIL that Warren Buffet submitted a $7 tax return when he was a teenager.
GYwJN TIL Flamin' Hot Cheetos was invented by a janitor