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TIL in Back To The Future, a refrigerator was going to be the time travel device, but the director changed his mind because he didn’t want kids climbing into refrigerators and getting stuck.

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NQ1N TIL lighters were invented before matches
awNBy TIL Marvel comics filed for bankruptcy in 1996
l9DN TIL between 2010-2012, DNA testing found that over half of fish labeled and sold as “Tuna” in the USA was NOT tuna. 87% of Red Snapper sold were also found to be completely mislabeled.
dNVB TIL in 1984, the then-Baltimore Colts were moved to Indianapolis in secret in the middle of the night, with 15 moving trucks taking different routes to avoid being seized by the State of Maryland under eminent domain.
oV9o TIL that there was a computer worm that would gain access to Windows XP systems, download a patch from Microsoft to close the vulnerability that it used to infect the system, attempt to delete the infamous Blaster worm (if present) from the system, then delete itself.