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TIL Sir Peter Jackson owns a version of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang used in the film and the car is fully driveable.

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m05Y TIL 92 years ago today started the largest uprising in U.S. history since the Civil War, when over 10,000 armed coal miners attempted to take down lawmakers in an attempt to unionize West Virginian mine workers. The U.S. Army intervened, and the workers lost.
5YOZ8 TIL: The rivalry between Adidas and Puma became so fierce that the German town of Herzogenaurach (where both companies had their HQs) became known as "the town of bent necks", as no local would start a conversation with another without first looking down to check which firm's shoes they were wearing
Rlnj TIL the “Iron maiden,” commonly accepted as a medieval torture device, was created as a hoax in 1793, pieced together from artifacts found in museums to be used as a “spectacular” object for commercial exposition.
6Ew5w TIL the reason Mark Hamill looks different in ‘Empire’ and ‘Return’ is because had a car accident after filming “A New Hope” and needed cartilage from his ear to rebuild his nose.
M7eBa TIL an octopus mermaid (Such as Ursula from Disney's The Little Mermaid) is called a "Cecaelia", a modern term derived primarily from a black-and-white comic in Vampirella Magazine from the early 1970s featuring a woman/octopus hybrid character named Cilia.