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TIL That much of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure was filmed in Arizona. Including the famous "Strange things are afoot at the Circle K" scene and the Napoleon discovers his love of water parks scene.

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6EElY TIL Wil Ferrell and John C Reilly are starring in a comed film based on Sherlock Homes and it is written and being directed by ETHAN COEN!!
ANDaw TIL that the predecessor to the modern SD card was a storage format called MultiMediaCard, or MMC. Many SD card readers can read some MMC cards without issue. A very popular variant is eMMC, which is an embedded low-cost solid-state storage option for mobile phones and laptops.
v1wbD TIL: Handshakes originated as a way to see if the person you met was armed. You took their hand to see if it was empty and shook it to confirm they had no weapons up their sleeve.
kg5g TIL During WW2 in Africa, US tanks were outmatched by superior German tanks. So the US used Jeeps with machine guns to go behind enemy lines to destroy the fuel trucks supplying gas to the German tanks thereby disabling them.
v14nR TIL that I accidentally set a "World Record" for pinching 500 candle wicks with my fingers. It was a stupid idea that turned out to be a first for world records.