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TIL I learned that the US bombing of Cambodia in the 1970s was requested / approved by the Cambodian government

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E7Ld TIL Tom Selleck was originally offered the role to play Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark but became unavailable for the part because of his commitment to the television series Magnum, P.I.
KO9GB TIL that in 2017, Frankfurt police found a car belonging to a 76 year old man who had forgotten where he had parked it 20 years earlier.
LkD0d TIL the Deep Note, also known as the "THX Note", was designed and synthesized in 1983 by James A. Moorer after 2 years of development using a 19" rack full of digital hardware. It is perceived as much louder than it is due to the large number of overlapping voices - the original version has 30.
0Q7R TIL that a bullet fired from a rifled barrel spins at 300,000RPM (5000 rotations per second)
grXG9 TIL Robert Chesebrough promoted his petroleum jelly by giving away free samples, making him one of the first to do so. Chesebrough would also show his product's effectiveness by cutting and burning himself then apply petroleum jelly to treat the wound in front of an audience.