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TIL, Mel Brooks wore a fake 6th finger to get his handprint in the sidewalk at Grauman's Chinese Theater.

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xV6aB TIL when a law firm filed a class-action lawsuit against Taco Bell claiming the chain's seasoned beef filling isn’t beefy enough to be called beef by USDA standards, the chain spent $3-$4million to defend its beef filling as ‘high quality’ & insisted that the product is actually 88% beef.
WkNvX TIL in the early 20th century, trains in the US were destroyed in staged head-on collisions in front of live audiences for entertainment. This ended in the 1930s as it was seen to be wasteful of old but otherwise useful locomotives at the height of the Great Depression.
AN9Xn TIL During World War II, Nazi Germany planned to cripple the U.S. war effort by attacking the Pennsylvania Railroad's four-track mainline at Horseshoe Curve. The agents came over by U-Boat, but were stopped by the FBI. Had it succeeded, U.S. supply lines to Europe could have been badly disrupted.
LkwYp TIL the north pole of Mars is surrounded by a flat and featureless lowland, several kilometers lower the mean height of the planet, called Vastitas Borealis
1ab57 TIL: An autonomous killer robot is hunting coral eating starfish at the great barrier reef.