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TIL Asbestos was used as fake snow in early Hollywood in films such as, “The Wizard of Oz”

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RQbj TIL two men lost an arm in a mass tug-of-war contest in Taiwan. NSFW
nWw6P TIL the "AIR CHINA" written on Air China flight liveries is a calligraphy by China's former leader Deng Xiaoping.
OGAye TIL Prior to setting the 1964 and 1965 land speed records, Art Arfons bought a jet engine from a F-104 Starfighter from a scrap dealer for $600. He successfully fixed the engine and tested it by tying it to trees in his garden, despite objections from the government and his neighbors
KOpnw TIL USA only country in the world that where Olympic athletes are not government funded or sponsored
BgWmd TIL the museum considered to have been the first museum in world history was founded in Ur circa 530 BC. Known as Ennigaldi's museum (named after Ennigaldi, a princess of the Neo-Babylonian Empire), it showcased cataloged and labelled artifacts from the preceding 1,500 years of Mesopotamian history.