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6EBvX TIL that Iron Giant book ends with the Iron Giant defeating a "Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon" the size of Australia in a contest of pain endurance. The Iron Giant then commands the alien monster to bring peace to humanity by flying around the Earth singing the "music of the spheres".
kno7 TIL That in the first Pirates of The Caribbean movie, the director insisted on actually having 882 Aztec coins in the chest for “a sense of historical fantasy”. Johnny Depp also used a real pistol, made in 1760.
8NdL TIL that the vital antibody-based Ebola drug ZMapp is produced in large scale in the Nicotiana benthamiana plant- tobacco.
W7Lvd TIL in China there's a public health issue regarding an illegal practice called "Gutter Oil" as up to 10% of the restaurants use cooking oil manually refined from the sewage waste.
oR5Lr TIL in the 1960s, Swiss rivers were filthy and unsafe. A 1963 typhoid outbreak in Zermatt killed 3 and sickened over 450. A 1967 initiative led to a 1971 law on wastewater treatment. By 2005, 97% had sewage access.