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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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rNlXx TIL of a 24hr long art film called The Clock. It is a looped montage of scenes from film and television that feature clocks or timepieces to make up an entire day. Its screening is always synchronized with the local time, resulting in the time shown in a scene being the actual time of the viewing.
j651N TIL: Toyota is the world's most popular car brand
kwV7 TIL of ‘The Jungle,’ the largest homeless encampment in the US – ironically, next to a creek in Silicon Valley.
ne977 TIL The supreme court concluded that US citizens have the right to refuse presidential pardons. George Wilson fought a presidential pardon and won a hanging.
9Y6Am TIL that blanks in a gun can kill. Jon-Erik Hexum was an actor who accidentally killed himself with a blank gun. Later his transplanted heart saved the life of a Las Vegas pimp.