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TIL that Marvin the Martian was created as a satire of Cold War era Soviets. Marvin is from the red planet, wears red, feuds with Bugs Bunny (who represents the USA) as a parody of the Space Race, is armed with missiles capable of incredible destruction, and has an obsession with global domination.

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PY9vE TIL the original ending to Back to the Future would have Marty driving 88 mph towards a nuclear blast in a nuclear test site. However, Universal deemed it too expensive to shoot in the desert, so the lightning scene was instead shot at the Universal backlot and is shown in the final version.
8kVa TIL that even with SATA 3.0, that SSDs only transfer data at a fraction of their speed due to the fact that SATA can’t keep up with the drive.
KpE4 TIL when North Korea sank a South Korean Warship in 2010, South Korea responded by blasting the hit K-Pop song “Hit your heart” across the border using large military loud speakers.
xVjWo TIL the Chinese gov. has been sending seeds to space to promote plant mutations for various crops. Good mutations are used to improve crops back on earth. The method has produced giant eggplants, half-meter long cucumbers, and peppers with improved yields and reduced seeds.
jrXN TIL the Soviets gave the offspring of one of their space dogs to JFK’s daughter Caroline during the Cold War in 1961, which went on to have pups with an American dog that JFK jokingly dubbed ‘pupniks’