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TIL plastic soda bottles are shipped in compressed form for shipping, and later use blow molding to expand to their traditional shapes for filling.

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MePMb TIL Dan Aykroyd conceived of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man for his initial script for Ghostbusters the movie. He created the character to show that "it seems harmless and puffy and cute—but given the right circumstances, everything can be turned black and become evil.”
xV07 TIL when Galileo presented his version of the telescope to the City of Venice in 1609, he did so at least partially because he needed the money to help support a throng of illegitimate children.
GPkE TIL that police can refuse to interview job applicants if they score too high on an intelligence test
Rkn8 TIL that composer Charles Ives proposed that a 20th Amendment should be added to the U.S. Constitution that allowed people to submit legislative proposals to Congress. Members of Congress would then cull the proposals, selecting 10 each year as referendums for popular vote by the nation’s electorate
x6xMB TIL that Yuwen Hu, a 6th-century Chinese general, is the only person in history to have killed three emperors. Within just three years (557–560 AD), he deposed and executed Emperor Gong of Western Wei, followed by Emperor Xiaomin and Emperor Ming of Northern Zhou.