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WkgR9 TIL Cannonball Run's director Hal Needham's tradition of showing bloopers during the closing credits of his films inspired Jackie Chan to do the same at the end of most of his films too.
9wOZM TIL that itally has its own distinctive variety of rice
BGpr TIL an Owl’s eyes are so well developed, they are not eye balls but elongated tubes. It is for this reason they cannot roll or move their eyes and can only look straight ahead (which is why they have adapted an extraordinary range of movement in their neck).
DrJV TIL after a bloody war with Ethiopia in 2001, half of Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki’s Cabinet signed a letter asking him to reconsider his authoritarian style of government. He promptly charged his own ministers with treason and threw them in jail, where they remain today.
9YEaQ TIL the CEO of Goldman Sachs is a DJ under the name "DJ D-Sol"