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TIL During the notorious filming for 1963's "Cleopatra"20th Century Fox regularly had chilli from the Beverly Hills restaurant Chasen's air-freighted to Rome to keep star Elizabeth Taylor happy. The film cost eventually almost bust Fox

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OoW4g Today I learned that the reason we have muscle cars from the 60's was because NASCAR banned engines that were not in production models so Plymouth in order to keep their big Hemi engines in racing, put them in regular stock vehicles giving us the big horsepower in those 60's hotrods.
ANrJo TIL that North Korea is the country with the most active soldiers per 1,000 people (almost 50 soldiers per 1,000 people), the US has 4 per 1,000 people.
0vrN TIL, in China, before it there was a vaccine, smallpox scabs were ground up and blown up the noses of healthy people in order to immunize them.
JYlek TIL the youngest person to climb to the summit of the 14,180-foot Mount Shasta in California was the seven-year-old Eva Luna Harper-Zahn.
78x7 TIL Doritos make an excellent fire starter