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TIL The international parking sign was first designed for the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam

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MEb0 TIL that Tobe Hooper came up with the idea of a chainsaw as the murder weapon for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre when he was at a hardware store and was wondering how he could speed his way through the crowd.
d8oX7 TIL in French dubs of the classic Looney Tunes cartoons, Pepe Le Pew was given a stereotypical Italian accent, specifically a vocal caricature of Italian-French singer and actor Yves Montand.
0wmYN TIL "Typhoid Mary" vigorously protested her quarantine. When she was first captured in 1907, she fled over back fences and barricaded herself with barrels. Her second capture came after she hid in a friend’s home on Corona Avenue and was finally captured by means of a ladder to the second story.
xV5bB TIL Blazing Saddles was the first movie to have a fart scene
a8eDL TIL Christa McAuliffe, who was the teacher who died on the Space Shuttle Challenger, was 1 of 11,000 applicants in NASA's search to find an "ordinary person" to put their first civilian in space. She later remarked, "If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat. Just get on."