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TIL The movie “This is Spinal Tap” is the only movie on imdb rated on a 1 to 11 Rating Scale due to the joke in the movie about the Amps going up to 11.

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edKL TIL The space shuttle Challenger explosion did not immediately kill the crew. The undamaged crew compartment broke free and continued to gain altitude to a peak of 65,000 feet before beginning a 2 minute 45 second free-fall into the Atlantic ocean.
JYEQB TIL about a company called Washboard that launched in 2014 that mailed you $10 in quarters each month for your laundry machine at a cost of $14.99. They signed up less than 10 customers
o7WW TIL that Conan O'Brien graduated as valedictorian of his high school, and then went to Harvard University where he graduated magna cum laude.
oYKW TIL that the Leica Camera company smuggled hundreds of Jews out of Nazi Germany before the Holocaust, masquerading the Jews as employees being assigned overseas. The company helped each refugee find a job, gave each of them a Leica camera, and a monthly stipend till they found work.
npQd TIL There is a one-hole “golf course” just meters south of the Korean DMZ which is surrounded on three sides by minefields. There are reports that at least one shot exploded a land mine