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TIL Star Trek’s James Doohan (‘Scotty’) prevented a fan from committing suicide. His support and encouragement inspired her to go back to school and become an electronics engineer.

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7lwZ TIL the base sound of the lightsaber is an old projection motor Ben Burtt worked with as a projectionist. The “sparkling, scintillating” part was discovered by accident when he passed a microphone behind a television. Burtt’s “natural sound” approach in Star Wars pioneered modern sound design
5V1Bk TIL the leopard slug's mating ritual is strangely beautiful
7r6mr TIL that the dairy industry once lost 420 million dollars to a genetic flaw in a single bull
b6JkN TIL John Tyler had the most children of any American President with a total of 15.
gwnX TIL Supreme Court found random drug checkpoints unconstitutional in 2000. Since then, police have gotten into the habit of putting signs up warning drivers of upcoming drug checkpoints, and then detaining and searching drivers who make illegal u-turns.