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TIL that during build up to the release of The Phantom Menace, Star Wars released a poster mocking the lack of plot in Godzilla (1998)

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R7dj9 TIL: Peppers are spicy because the spiciness is supposed to be a defense mechanism against predators.
Jmvl TIL Godzilla was conceived as a metaphor for the nuclear weapons. To emphasize the monster’s relationship with the atomic bomb, its skin texture was inspired by the keloid scars seen on survivors in Hiroshima.
v1YmK TIL 20 years ago, someone impaled a 60 pound pumpkin on the top of a spire at Cornell University in the middle of the night. It was over 170 feet off the ground. To this day, no one is really sure how this was accomplished without anyone noticing....
oROd7 TIL that the Great Wall of China was not built as a single continuous wall, but rather as a series of walls and fortifications constructed by various dynasties over centuries. The most well-known sections were built during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644).
jAnR TIL paleontologists have found 55-million-year old fossil remains of parrots in Scandinavia