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TIL before becoming a popular "horror" author for children R.L. Stine wrote joke books, but more importantly for Bazooka Joe comics and the jokes on Bazooka bubble gum wrappers.

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4kBX5 TIL the James Webb Space Telescope has a focal length of 131400 mm (131.4 m)
XQaP TIL the US warned Japanese citizens at least 5 days in advance of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They dropped millions of leaflets and issued radio broadcasts urging citizens to flee.
WkQnB TIL Robert De Niro prepared for his role in 'Taxi Driver' by obtaining a New York taxi license and spending a month working up to 14 hour shifts picking people up all over New York.
ky4g TIL all figs are pollinated by wasps as they are basically inverted flowers and can’t be pollinated otherwise. If it’s a female plant the wasp can’t escape and the fig plant slowly digests the wasp’s body with enzymes. So all edible figs have a digested wasp in them.
GAwVN TIL that a 2016 Italian film called "Perfect Strangers" holds the world record of being the most remade movie ever, having been remade 24 times in different languages. An English-language version has yet to be released