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TIL that C.J. Hill (Known for her Slayers series) was the mother of TheOdd1sOut

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xxao TIL that a tool shop owner paid $100 for a locked abandoned storage unit, only to find the Lotus Esprit submarine prop from The Spy Who Loved Me inside. He sold it to Elon Musk for $825,000.

Eg6Od TIL Macaulay Culkin's real name is Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin.

epZlJ TIL that in 1958, the U.S. accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on a South Carolina family's backyard. While it wasn’t armed with a nuclear warhead, the conventional explosives detonated, leaving a large crater and damaging the house. Amazingly, no one was killed in what became known as the Mars

a8gN9 TIL Novelist Michael Crichton was a hobbyist computer programmer in the 1980s, and helped program his own adaptation of Congo for the Commodore 64 ... which then had to be rebranded after realizing he had already sold the adaptation rights to the book.

VMAM4 TIL that King Henry loved adding guns to other weapons. His bodyguards carried shields with pistols built into them, and Henry himself had a walking stick that doubled as both a spiked mace and a three-barreled pistol.