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TIL Universal Studios owns a phone number with a New York City area code that they use in movies to avoid using a “555” number.

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Lkmj9 TIL Golden rice is just NORMAL RICE genetically modified to contain VITAMIN A because where rice is part of the staple diet people were DYING with deficiency
4XrKR TIL contrary to the popular myth that if a horse's legs were raised on a statue, the rider died in battle, there is no correlation between good position and manner of mortality
XExNX TIL That Hitler blamed the German people for his failures.
mxdZM TIL that during a NASA auction in 1976, an intern called G. George bought 218$ worth of film roll. It turns out that they were original videotape recordings of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Sotheby's has since resold it for about 1.8 million dollars.
rV8e TIL that in Australia you can be charged with supplying drugs based purely on text messages. No need for the police to see drugs / money change hands or find drugs on either person.