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TIL Skunk, an odor based crowd control weapon, didn't work on Indians because they were used to bad smells

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yVnBl TIL that the first fax machine was invented several decades before Bell's telephone was patented.
nyEP TIL An Austrian collector has found what may be the oldest globe, dated 1504, to depict the New World, engraved with immaculate detail on two conjoined halves of ostrich eggs
EE5X TIL the scene depicting the Omaha landings at Normandy in Saving Private Ryan cost $12 million and used up to 1,500 extras.
Zp08B TIL in 1967, The Doors scored their first #1 hit with "Light My Fire." Elektra Records’ founder Jac Holzman offered each member a gift; Jim Morrison picked a 1967 Ford Mustang, inspired by his hairstylist Jay Sebring. In 1969, Morrison mysteriously lost the Mustang, and its fate remains a mystery.
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