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TIL: Powdered milk is used as a prop on film industry to resemble cocaine, yes it’s snort it too.

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e5wk TIL that while many woodland creatures harbor ticks and spread Lyme disease, opossums kill 96.5% of ticks that land on them and that a single opossum may be “hoovering up and killing” 4,000 ticks every week and thereby protecting us from Lyme disease
xQAg TIL the man who invented autopilot was also the founding member of the mile-high club.
ddE8 TIL that Disneyland uses stray cats to fend off mice.
yNJv TIL in WWII, the Japanese navy had submersible aircraft carriers. These carriers were able to carry aircraft underwater to their destinations, surface, launch their planes, then quickly dive again before they were discovered.
1NA8 TIL Marcia, George Lucas’s ex-wife, got an Oscar for her editing and was behind some of the better ideas of Star Wars. She got very little credit after the divorce.