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TIL a Kansas woman drove her car 1,000,000 miles in just 5 years.

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GAX1E TIL the working titles for Marvel’s Spider-Man movies include “Summer of George” and “Serenity Now”
4D6N TIL Gandhi received a British medal for helping to suppress black South Africans, said that Hitler was “not a bad man”, and disallowed his wife from taking penicillin for pneumonia, from which she then died (he was against “alien medicine”). Later, he “allowed doctors to save his life with quinine”.
AmJ4 TIL Spielberg adviced the ‘Red coat girl’ on 'Schindler’s List’ to only watch the film when she turns 18 but watched it instead at age 11 saying she was 'traumatized and ashamed’ until she revisited it properly 7 yrs later
yQbvV TIL the designer of the notorious font Comic Sans also designed Trebuchet, one of the most commonly-used fonts on the internet.
XEBOQ TIL beautiful bismuth crystals can be made at home by taking the metal bismuth which has a meting point of 270°C (520°F) and hence can be easily melted in a pan, after removing the contaminants in the top layer, it is left to cool when some of the top layer is cooled the solud crystals are removed.