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TIL that The Land Before Time was produced by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.

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DQVne TIL that inhalation and exhalation are byproducts of the diaphragm’s movement, not an active process of the lungs. The diaphragm controls airflow by contracting and relaxing.
OG85e TIL of the Garage Barrage Tour by Metallica. In 1998, to promote their covers album "Garage, Inc.," the band performed five shows where they only played cover songs. Metallica songs were instead performed by the opening act: a Metallica tribute band called Battery.
woAyo TIL Levi Strauss made his fortune initially by making pants out of tent canvas for miners during the 1850s Gold Rush
YpJ17 TIL Winston Churchill gets a doctor’s note to drink “unlimited” alcohol in Prohibition America
WkkG4 "Lightning. It avoids the ocean but likes Florida. It’s attracted to the Himalayas and even more so to central Africa. And lightning almost never strikes the north or south poles."