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9Y9MX TIL the movie (and song) “9 to 5” was inspired by an actual women’s labor movement called 9 to 5 that started in Boston in the 1970s
b90vZ TIL General Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote a speech in which he took full personal responsibility for the failure of D-Day. History had other plans, however.
Y7LrB TIL: that the earliest indoor toilets are over 5000 years, dated to the Neolithic (c 3200BC) - discovered at Skara Brae, Orkney.
nEpP TIL the Christopher Nolan “Tumbler” Batmobiles were street-ready vehicles built from scratch, not shells on top of existing cars, capable of high-speed driving, jumping, and tight cornering.
lG6B TIL: Almost exclusively in Minnesota the game “Duck, Duck, Goose” is called “Duck, Duck, Grey Duck”