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TIL that 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea refers to the distance traveled while under the sea, not the depth.

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5X0p TIL that in the Labyrinth movie all the “juggling” done by David Bowie was actually another guy standing behind him with his arms through his cloak.
4Xo4b TIL Bessie Coleman was an American Aviator and the first black woman to earn a pilot's license.Because flying schools in the United States denied her entry,she taught herself French and moved to France,earning her license from France's well-known Caudron Brother's School of Aviation in just 7 months
e0D8b TIL that during testing of The Legend of Zelda in 1986, the testers complained that the game was too confusing and that they kept getting lost. As a result of this, Shigeru Miyamoto decided to make the game even harder by starting off the player without a weapon.
gpN9 TIL that during World War 2, the US briefly renamed Hamburgers to “Liberty Steaks”. As Hamburgers sounded too German.
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