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TIL that M&M stands for Mars and Murrie’s

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a88jA TIL that Singapore has the longest driverless metro system in the world with it being fully automated. It currently has 199km(124mi) of automated lines with an additional 43km(27mi) planned to be completed by 2024. In second place is the Shanghai Metro with 164km(102mi) of automated lines.
8awya TIL the actor originally cast as Charlie in Charlie's Angels was drunk and couldn't record his lines. The show's creator called John Forsythe last minute, he recorded the lines for the first episode in the middle of the night, then went back to bed. He kept that role for 5 years.
X7ZE TIL William Kamkwamba aged 14, learnt how to build an electricity-producing windmill from spare parts and scrap from information gained in library books, after being forced to drop out of school due to poverty.
oR70R TIL Moose sound like a chainsaw trying to start.
NwE8 TIL :A small percentage of static on televisions is actually radioactive resonance from the big bang 13 billion years ago.