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TIL at one point in the development of the new Barbie movie, Barbie was going to be played by Amy Schumer — and the screenplay was to be written by her sister

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x65yw TIL: Your car's VIN (vehicle identification number) shows its country of origin, engine size, model year, vehicle type, trim level and manufacturing factory. The first 3 digits/letters identify the country, positions 4 to 9 describe the vehicle, and 10-17 is the vehicle identifier section.
XEYAQ TIL that the sound used when planes are going down and crashing in films is the sound of a siren fitted onto a Nazi dive bomber. The siren was fazed out towards the end of the war since the siren had considerable drag and the pilots hated having to listen to the whine during the entire flight.
kOB9d TIL The phrase 'pipe dream' is an allusion to the dreams experienced by smokers of opium pipes
y8wX TIL that UPS delivery drivers only make right hand turns. UPS uses engineers and software to plan routes for their drivers that only have right turns, unless a left turn is absolutely necessary. This saves them time and fuel by never having to wait at stoplights, or in traffic, to make a left turn.
9w0w6 TIL that Ray Bradbury wrote "The Halloween Tree" (1972) as a result of being disappointed after watching "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" - due to what he believed was the television special's lackluster depiction of Halloween