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TIL Edward Norton commented on smashing the Volkswagen Beetle in fight club by saying, “We smash it … because it seemed like the classic example of a Baby Boomer generation marketing plan that sold culture back to us.”

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DQ15p TIL that since the 1960s, the Aral Sea, formerly the fourth largest lake in the world, has been drying up, leaving hundreds of fishing boats rusting in the desert
OoeLg TIL Dorian Leigh, one of the first supermodels, was a mechanical engineer who designed airplane wings during WWII
wLgY TIL in 1985, the Soviet Union compiled a secret list of 38 “ideologically harmful” western bands, which included Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Depeche Mode, and the Village People.
VBpYG TIL there is a fish whose scientific name is Boops boops.
awebb TIL of Alan Francis, who has won 8 consecutive World Horseshoe Championship titles, and 16 of the 17 years. He has a total of 24 World Horseshoe Championship titles. The New York Times has even referred to him as the “most dominant athlete in any sport in the country"