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TIL Commercial bread contains an ingredient derived from human hair: l-cysteine

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xg0o TIL that tentacle porn was created because Japanese censorship laws prohibited the showing of human genitalia
DQeRe TIL that the first movie to have surround sound was from 1940; Walt Disney's Fantasia. Some versions of 'Fantasound' called for 52 speakers.
5YaJP TIL about Americathon, a !979 movie that perdicted that in 20 years, The Soviet Union would collapse, China would become a superpower, and Nike, then a small shoe company in Oregon, would become a huge multinational corporation.
4Xpew TIL the king cobra (Ophiophagus Hannah) is technically not a cobra (doesn't belong to the Naja genus). It's called the king cobra because it kills and eats other cobras.
78pvr TIL that a typical fire extinguisher only lasts seconds while continuously being sprayed. A 20 pound extinguisher can only be sprayed for 25 seconds.