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TIL An Alaskan town celebrates Independence Day by launching cars off a cliff

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xV5RB TIL: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) was the most expensive film produced in the 1980s ($70 mil) and had the longest on-screen credits for a film.
M7b7 TIL on October 12, 1960, during a live, televised debate, a Japanese politician was stabbed to death by a 17yo right-wing assassin. The entire incident was broadcast nation wide.
OGjpY TIL Commercial tea bags release millions of microplastics and nanoplastics when in use. For the first time, the study demonstrates how these particles can enter the bloodstream and travel throughout the body after being absorbed by human intestinal cells
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9Y6RD TIL that "Song 2" by Blur was intended to be a parody of grunge culture, but was unironically accepted by the very culture it was parodying