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TIL Filmmaker Wes Anderson is the great-grandson of Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs

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x6B50 TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't allowed to dub his own role in Terminator in German, as his accent is considered very rural by German/Austrian standards and it would be too ridiculous to have a death machine from the future come back in time and sound like a hillbilly.
WZpL TIL There’s an old vending machine in Seattle that has been spitting out sodas on the corner of John and Broadway for up to 15 years, but no one seems to know who re-stocks, maintains, or collects money from the thing. Some flavors include Mountain Dew White Out and Black Cherry Frescas.
0d6Dv TIL Blackberries were 43% of all smartphones sold in 2010, but by 2013 collapsed to 5.9%.
vPpD7 TIL about pishtacos, an Andean Indigenous legend. People feared Spanish missionaries (pishtacos), believing the missionaries were killing people for fat, thereafter oiling church bells to make them especially sonorous.
Jy1m TIL that in 1981 it was proposed to breed cats that changed color when exposed to radiation and write folk songs about this trait so that future generations would have a means to be warned to stay away from contaminated areas such as nuclear waste repositories.