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TIL blockbuster films are named after a bomb

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o1MA TIL 86 year old mathmetician/pianist Tom Lehrer invented the Jell-O shot to circumvent rules against alcohol in the Army.
KYoAE TIL until the 1960s, Tyrannosaurus Rex was widely thought to walk standing upright, dragging their tails on the ground. This misperception endured through the 1980s in popular culture, such as toys and TV shows.
b6YK0 TIL Jack Black’s mother was an engineer for NASA who worked the problem of getting the Apollo 13 astronauts home while she was in labor.
yQjZe TIL that the largest underground shopping complex in the world is over 30km long, and is in Toronto, Canada.
neeyW TIL a Potter's field is a place where unclaimed bodies are buried. The Potter's field for New York is Hart Island in the Bronx and it is home to over one million bodies.