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TIL that when Bill Murray’s character in “Kingpin,” Ernie McCracken, bowls three straight strikes in the final showdown, Murray actually accomplished the feat himself. The crowd’s response is a genuine reaction to the actor’s surprising skill.

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KYm7B TIL that Angélique du Coudray, an 18th-century French midwife, created a life-sized childbirth manikin to train rural women. Commissioned by Louis XV, her model was approved by the Academy of Surgery. In her thirty years of teaching she taught over 30,000 students.
OoGOX The sky appears blue for a combination of two reasons. Before white light reaches the Earth's surface, the light waves collide with and bounce off of the nitrogen and oxygen atoms in the atmosphere. Different frequencies of light (in other words different colours) are scattered differently. Higher frequencies (blue and purple) are more easily scattered and thus bounce around in all different directions more than lower frequencies (red or orange) do. The scattering of high frequencies alone would cause the sky to appear blue and purple, but our eyes work better at frequencies near the middle of the spectrum (yellow and green). Since the colour blue is closer to yellow or green than purple is, the sky we see appears blue.
neVJ9 TIL tha Bayer sold HIV and Hepatitis C contaminated blood products which caused up to 10,000 people in the U.S. alone to contract HIV. They pulled it off the U.S. market, but sold it to countries in Asia and Latin America so they could still make money
JYZa4 TIL that Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1+2 has a song call Confisco from Charlie Brown Junior made possible because the fans made a petition asking Activision. CBR is a locally famous brazilian band, the singer most know as Chorão was a big skate advocate, he passed 2013.
8aRy4 TIL that Freddie Mercury stopped working with Michael Jackson on the album "Mr Bad Guy" after he became uncomfortable with Jacksons Pet llama being in the studio