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TIL Roald Dahl wrote screenplays for two Ian Fleming novels, You Only Live Twice and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

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x605w TIL in the US there was an "oyster craze" of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Due to advances in oyster farm technology, between 1880 and 1910, as many as 160 million pounds of oysters were harvested a year, and in 1909 the price per pound fell to less than half of beef.
awevb TIL Car and Driver testing revealed that the Lincoln Continental Mark V was quieter than the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow and had better city fuel economy.
J17kk TIL In the Where's Wally? series of books, Wally became progressively smaller as the series went on, with Wally being 0.99cm^2 in the first book, and 0.20 to 0.17cm^2 in the fourth book onwards.
o0pr TIL that astronomers and geologists have discovered evidence that Mars once experienced massive tsunamis, some of which had waves over 400-feet-tall.
8ZLV TIL the reason Saran Wrap sucks now is because the company that makes it decided to remove an environmentally harmful ingredient, despite knowing that it would hurt sales