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TIL In Switzerland its illegal to own only one guinea pig
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TIL The magic of Star Wars was largely thanks to one man, Roger Christian, who spent countless hours without getting paid, constructing the worlds on screen from piles of scrapped airplanes.
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TIL It took about a year to make the 4 minutes of CGI used in Jurassic Park
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TIL archaeologists had found a ring inside a 9th century Viking grave that is inscribed with the phrase ‘for Allah’.
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TIL that 10 million people (1/4 of USA population!!) physically attended the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, 1876 (see link, Yale Univ. Professor Blight, at time 6:00 in video)
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TIL NBC’s Dateline aired a segment showing gas tanks on General Motors pickup trucks tended to explode on even low-speed impacts. G.M. responded with an investigation showing that Dateline had rigged explosions in the show by affixing model-rocket engines to a truck’s underbody.