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TIL that cars had push-button start until 1949

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6EXOl The ozone hole is slowly healing.
Ewdp TIL Chris Columbus was originally set to direct National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation but dropped out after difficult meetings with star Chevy Chase. Instead Columbus made Home Alone; the highest grossing Christmas film of all time.
97GD TIL despite over 5 million square feet of floor space, the Pentagon in Washington was constructed in such a way that no point in the building is more than a 10 minute walk from any other point in the building.
9YorM TIL that hospitals can and do prescribe alcohol to patients in order to prevent delirium tremens and alcoholic withdrawal
1aKaO TIL that Anatidaephobia us the fear that somehow, somewhere, a duck is watching you