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TIL that in Toy-story, the characters name is actually “Buzz light year not Buzz light gear”

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Q5Zk TIL the reason cocaine was removed from Coca Cola was not because people learned the negative health impact of the drug but because of racial fears on the part of white Americans
OG0vR TIL: Divers searching for a sunken World War II-era aircraft, instead came across a 15 by 15-foot section of the Challenger Space Shuttle 37 years after it exploded off the Florida coast. After the explosion, the salvage effort had recovered 47% of the shuttle.
Daee TIL of the Great Emu War, in which Australia deployed soldiers armed with machine guns to fight against a horde of 20,000 Emus that were terrorizing the countryside; it was largely unsuccessful.
nwGW TIL that The Pirate Bay tried buying their own island to make a country with no copyright laws
vP0N7 TIL: Martin Scorsese's special effect team created a "traveling booger matte" to remove a large blob of cocaine from Neil Young's nose during his appearance in the 1978 film "The Last Waltz".