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TIL famous architect Buckminster Fuller proposed using the word "world-round" over "world-wide" because he felt like "world-wide" was anachronistic since the flat-earth belief was antiquated

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Wny9 TIL the crack in the Liberty Bell is from a repair job. In 1846, metal workers widened the thin crack to prevent it from spreading further and to restore the tone of the bell by using a technique called “stop drilling”. But the repair job produced a second crack that silenced the bell forever.
loNbA TIL that in 1984, the Back to the Future production designer actually built the Hill Valley set to appear several years older than 1955 because the belief at the time was that making a period film in 1984 that was “right on in ‘55” would look “a little too new.”
VB1o0 TIL in 2020 scientists discovered a new organ in the human throat, a previously unknown pair of salivary glands called the "tubarial salivary glands".
BrpVW TIL the Battle of Los Angeles occurred in 1942 when a blackout was issued for LA due to a rumored enemy air raid. Thought to be an attacking force from Japan, 1,400 rounds were spent shooting at a weather balloon and the event indirectly killed 5 people.
neOpo TIL In 2016, the Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museum in Hollywood paid $4.8 million for Marilyn Monroe's “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” dress that Monroe wore at JFK's 45th birthday celebration. The purchase cements it as one of the most expensive pieces of pop-culture memorabilia of all time.