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TIL Godzilla is a part of the Marvel Universe and has even interacted with The Avengers

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BBpd TIL after 9/11 there was a proposal to “to consider taking Saudi out of Arabia by forcibly seizing control of the oil fields, giving the Hijaz back to the Hashemites, and delegating control of Medina and Mecca to a multinational committee of moderate, non-Wahhabi Muslims”
KOM8a TIL chickens are great at reducing the tick population in a given area. Scientists estimate that a single chicken can eat 22113 ticks in a single season
1v0W TIL Pan Am used to weigh its flight attendants every month and if they were too heavy they were suspended without pay until they lost a few pounds
R7pga TIL John Hughes filmed "The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" concurrently to save time and money. He even used the same closed high school for the interior scenes, but built a second library in the gym for "Breakfast Club" as the original was too small.
loOL7 TIL that Charles Dickens’ novels were hugely popular even among the illiterate poor. They would pool their money to hire a reader, and then gather together to listen to the stories.