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TIL that people & organizations have spent millions of dollars to build an electrical grid in Kenya to have their efforts thwarted by individuals who steal PCP contaminated oil to sell to road side vendors to fry food with.

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bYOE TIL in Back To The Future, a refrigerator was going to be the time travel device, but the director changed his mind because he didn’t want kids climbing into refrigerators and getting stuck.
ROOa TIL despite actually being a boxing slang, there is a widespread notion that the phrase ‘Saved by the bell’ originated as an expression that relates to people being buried alive having a bell that was attached to the coffin, thus ringing it and be saved.
ZpDAD TIL a 20th Century Fox representative, after reading the script for "Zardoz", was incredibly confused at what he had just read; Begelman, John Boorman's agent at the time, went straight up to him and said "Congratulations!"
1alQr TIL that mammoths were originally thought to burrow like moles, since their remains were always found underground
ag6J TIL The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle has an air-to-air kill ratio of 98 to 1, the only air-to-air loss in 40 years of operation was a Saudi Arabian Air Force F-15 believed to have been shot down by an Iraqi Mig-25 during Operation Desert Shield/Storm in 1991.