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TIL that Voltaire saw Canada as being a useless, frozen wasteland and sarcastically referred it as nothing more than “a few acres of snow”.

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BrERb TIL because ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ was filmed on a microscopic budget of $60,000, the cast and crew had to work 7 days a week, 12-16 hours a day in 115°F heat in a poorly ventilated farmhouse amid rotting roadkill being used as props to finish the film.
vPp9B TIL While traveling to the Tehran Conference in 1943 on the USS Iowa, FDR’s ship was almost torpedoed by the escorting destroyer USS William D Porter. The incident was caused when one of the destroyer’s crew members failed to remove the primer of the torpedo while doing a training exercise.
7r4Bp TIL that in 1966, the Procrastinators Club held a demonstration in Philadelphia to protest the War of 1812
a8Evy TIL that the reason printers refuse to print without yellow ink is because they print a Machine Identification Code on every page, leaving a unique microscopic pattern of yellow dots that say what the serial number and model of the printer is, allowing the documents to be traced back to the owner.
7rZNp TIL in the 1950s the US Government investigated a person named Robert Dorr because he kept writing to Boeing and asking for pictures of their planes. They discovered Dorr was a just teenager who loved planes, an "average and loyal American boy." He grew up to be a diplomat, author, and TV pundit.