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TIL Danny Devito helped produce Pulp Fiction and Gattacca

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5VPWB TIL that after the Sunshine Skyway Bridge was destroyed in a collision with a freighter, the replacement bridge was designed with protective bumpers to prevent it from happening again. When a ship collided with the new bridge in 1987, the bridge was unaffected but the vessel took on water and sank.
OoxG1 TIL "Thank God for Mississippi" is a saying used in the South because of Mississippi's commonly/stereotypically low rankings in quality of life among US states, thus sparing residents of other states the shame of being ranked last
BgmOk TIL that in AD 70, Roman emperor Vespasian levied a tax on urine and sent agents to public urinals to collect it. When his son (who opposed the tax), asked him whether the coins he collected this way smelled bad, he famously replied "money does not stink".
yQoZp TIL That half of a 8-bit byte is called a nibble.
ADNRB TIL The Duck Tales theme song spawned from the song Neutron Dance by the Pointer Sisters written by Mark Mueller