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l7eDG TIL Garlic Bread was popularized as a replacement for Bruschetta since ingredients from Italy like olive oil and certain types of breads were not as available in the USA. Instead French breads like baguettes and butter were used as cheaper substitutes.
W7veo TIL the 1983 film "Taking Tiger Mountain" was based on William S. Burroughs' 1979 novel "Blade Runner: a Movie," which was originally a film treatment for Alan E. Nourse's 1973 novel "The Bladerunner" (the title of which was used for the otherwise unrelated 1982 film "Blade Runner").
xMl1 TIL that worldwide, more than one in every ten marriages is between first and second cousins.
mLVy TIL some cable networks (like TBS and TNT) imperceptibly speed up reruns of shows (like Seinfeld) so they can fit in more ads. Speeding up the show by just 7.5% allows them to shave off almost two minutes off the broadcast.
699pw TIL that the northernmost point of land on earth is a small island off the coast of Greenland, 83-42, named after its latitude of 83 degrees 42 minutes north, but its official recognition is still pending due to its very small size.