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TIL that the city of Savage, Minnesota, used to have a “Taj Mahal” which was actually a set of stables constructed as a home for world-famous racehorse Dan Patch.

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7rNkp TIL that when David Lynch signed up for Dune (1984) he agreed to direct and write the screenplay, though he had not read the book, known the story, or even been interested in science fiction. Lynch worked on the script for six months yielding two drafts & subsequently worked on five more drafts
DZBe TIL Scientology obtained their tax exemption from the IRS by having P.I.s dig into the personal lives of IRS managers and initiating hundreds of law suits against IRS employees. Eventually Scientology offered to drop all suits for religious tax exemption and the US government caved.
wLYnE TIL: Nearly every copier built since 2002 contains a drive storing an copy of every document copied, scanned, or emailed by the machine.
ZpK0B TIL Neil Gaiman was hired to write the English translation of Princess Mononoke.
rQ8o TIL a failed experiment of an 18 year old English chemist in search of a treatment for malaria in 1856 produced one of the world’s first synthetic dyes for the color purple, which severely impacted economic trade as some natural dyes were major commodities more valuable than silver or gold