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TIL Tea kettles have been around for thousands of years.

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d8EnQ TIL that gargoyles on a 15th century church in Loire-Atlantique, France, now include Gizmo and a Gremlin from "Gremlins" and the xenomorph from "Alien." The characters were added when the centuries-old church was restored in the 1990s.
KOgoE TIL: The Japanese term for the Pleiades star cluster in Taurus is "Subaru," which is why Subaru has that 6-star logo.
nYbd TIL that because China has only 1 timezone, when you step into Afghanistan from China, you lose 3.5 hours.
95JD TIL most of the money George Clooney makes off his Nespresso commercials, he spends on a satellite that surveils Sudanese war criminal and dictator Omar al-Bashir.
xvL5 TIL Robin Williams only made $75,000 for voicing the Genie in Aladin, which went on to gross over $200 million domestically. “Disney later sent him a late Picasso painting as a way of thanking him for his work.”