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TIL Peter Jackson owns the original Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

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p8jVe TIL The longest pro baseball game ever was a AAA game that took 33 innings, took 8 1/2 hours to complete, had future Hall of Famers Wade Boggs and Cal Ripken Jr. playing, set 12 records, and had the final inning resumed months later to much fanfare only to end after 18 minutes.
pYoae TIL that the idea that 19th century doctors would treat hysteria by clitoral massage to produce an orgasm and that vibrators were invented as a labour-saving device for doctors doing so became widely accepted in multiple fields despite the fact there is no evidence for it at all.
GYQOj TIL In 1920, the New York Times published an editorial titled "A Severe Strain on Credulity," mocking scientist Robert Goddard's contention that a rocket could conceivably leave the atmosphere and even reach the moon. They later printed a retraction, the day after the launch of Apollo 11.
X0LE TIL In Finland, speeding tickets are determined by the driver’s annual income and a man once received a $200,000 fine
rRMgy TIL Shaggy got his famous lyric, "it wasn't me" from an Eddie Murphy punchline.