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TIL of “SLAM”, a cancelled nuclear ramjet missle that could carry up to 16 thermonuclear warheads, travel for months nonstop, spew radiation wherever it went, and flew at tree top levels, killing anyone it would fly over

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xvL5 TIL Robin Williams only made $75,000 for voicing the Genie in Aladin, which went on to gross over $200 million domestically. “Disney later sent him a late Picasso painting as a way of thanking him for his work.”
wobe8 TIL Nike made an ad where a Samburu tribesman said Nike's slogan "Just Do it" in his native language. An anthropologist called Nike out. The phrase actually meant, "I don’t want these. Give me big shoes.” Nike admitted their mistake and stated “we thought nobody in America would know what he said."
MenwK TIL when a serial killer broke into a woman's apartment, choked her roommate out & started choking her, she let her body go limp & pretended to pass out. While he was preparing to kill the roommate, she jumped of out a window & called for help. The roommate was saved & the serial killer got caught
1a6Q4 TIL after divorcing her foreign husband, Gossip Girl actress Kelly Rutherford got him deported by getting her legal team to report him for alleged business fraud. However, after he won child custody, her children were forced to move to France, and now she must travel there to see them.
KOaXQ TIL before the creation of a public, professional, paid fire department in Boston, the city would pay whatever company arrived first at the scene of a fire, which led to intense competition, and even physical altercations between companies on the way to fires.