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TIL Fred Durst directed a movie starring John Travolta and Devon Sawa that only made $4,000 at the box office

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M7ALA TIL about the 1899 Horsey Horseless, a design for an early automobile which contained a wooden horse head and neck attached to the front of the car in an attempt to not frighten horses.
YpZyx TIL Simon & Garfunkel's first album was so unsuccessful on the charts that the duo split. Their producer took one of the songs from the album, overdubbed/remixed it without their knowledge or permission, and "The Sounds of Silence" became a hit. The duo made four more albums.
V5GB TIL that shower-arguments have a name, Jouska. A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.
8eYrb TIL of the Poison Book Project, an effort to identify and catalogue books that were printed in the 19th century using arsenic compounds and “Paris green,” and are poisonous to researchers and librarians
DQEMj TIL there are 2 days each year where the entire world has 12h day/night