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TIL "The Producers" Broadway show on Curb Your Enthusiasm which stars Larry David and David Schwimmer is a real Broadway show written by Mel Brooks which adaptation of his 1968 film features fading producer Max Bialystock.

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KORea TIL the Statue of Liberty was originally designed in the 1860s for Egypt. Named 'Progress Carrying the Light to Asia', French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi modelled the statue after an Egyptian woman dressed in a veil. Due to costs, the idea was rejected, and a lighthouse was erected instead.
W48A TIL it is possible to extinguish all the mosquitoes. Scientists recently reported a system that allows them to push the “Nix” gene to such a system it would essentially create a chain reaction spreading the male gene, producing males until eventually the population crashes.
KwVa TIL that Mark Hamill aka Luke Skywalker voices “Skips” on the regular show (x-post from r/regularshow)
wLLrM TIL that Diana Nyad, at the age of 64, became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida. This was done unassisted.
69M4m TIL about the Rubens tube, also known as a flame tube, invented by German physicist Heinrich Rubens in 1905. A tube capped on both ends is filled with gas has 100 tiny flames that creates soundwave visualization