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05eR TIL - Ford’s invention of the moving assembly line allowed cars to be created so quickly that “Japan Black” was the only paint that could dry fast enough to keep up, thus his famous quote, “Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black”.
grZG7 TIL the studio behind the movie Se7en proposed a sequel called "Ei8ht" where a suddenly psychic Morgan Freeman chases an also psychic serial killer. The idea was dropped after director David Fincher replied, "I would be less interested in that than I would in having cigarettes put out in my eyes."
W7xG4 TIL that in 2008, the city of Chicago sold the rights to collect revenue from its 36,000 parking meters to a foreign-owned company based in the U.A.E, receiving a one-time lump sum of $1.2 billion against a 75 year lease. These parking meters generate about $200 million in revenue annually.
EaPV TIL that the Soviet launch of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, was such a shocking event that at least one theater manager stopped the movie to announce it. The movie was Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, and in the audience was a young Stephen King.
dPLd TIL Puerto Rico (“rich port”) was the capitol of the island of San Juan until a mapmaker accidentally switched the names in 1521, and the mistake was never corrected.