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TIL the film "The Other Side Of The Wind" holds the record for longest production time, taking 40 years to produce.

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yQwBe TIL during WW1, Germany used cow intestines to make Zeppelin airships, and made so many that it became illegal to make sausages, as it diverted cow intestines from the war effort. 250,000 cows were needed for each zeppelin!
b1MZ TIL that Utah is the largest consumer of paid internet pornography in the United States
xVE7g TIL In 1889, Mark Twain predicted the nature of trench warfare. He pitted 53 men versus 30,000 knights. Crouching behind minefields and electrified fences, and manning Gatling guns that “vomit death,” the time-traveler and his companions mow down rank upon gleaming rank of their armored assailants.
6VYQ TIL that in Jamaica sex between men is punishable with up to ten years imprisonment. Girl-on-girl action is allowed though.
6gpl TIL the little mermaid should have ended with Ariel dissolving into a foamy mess - including a link to other not so happy endings to other Disney stories