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TIL that Godzilla’s roar was created using a leather glove coated in pine-tar resin and rubbing it against the string of a double bass

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GQJj TIL that in 2006 somebody stole and tried to sell Coke’s recipe to Pepsi, who turned down the offer, notified Coke execs, and called in FBI on the thieves.
EgWQw TIL the longest word in any language is the chemical name of the titan protein which is 189819 letters.
xVD67 TIL a dead girl was found in the River Seine in France in the 1880s. The coroner was so infatuated with her that he took a mold of her face. Her face became a morbid fascination and many copies were made. When the first CPR dummy was made, it used her face and has since continued to.
p8AjG TIL That the Republican Party was the Anti-Slave-Party in the American Civil War
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