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TIL the actor in the Xenomorph suit in Aliens never acted in another movie.

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ldWB TIL that nearly all Japaneses school staff are trained to use a weapon called the Sasumata. It is a two pronged people catcher based off a medieval weapon of war that is used to immobilize intruders.
JY518 TIL that a pilot and copilot of a flight are adviced not to eat the same meals in case one causes food poisoning.
R5wg9 TIL I learned about the precursor to the BASIC programming language: the Dartmouth Oversimplified Programming Experiment ... it's DOPE
ADm94 TIL of the Anti-Bolshevik League incident. Eventual CCP leader Mao Zedong had 120 political opponents arrested, 17 were murdered. It resulted in another communist army unit revolting, believing Mao was trying to kidnap fellow leaders Zhu De, Peng Dehuai and surrender to the nationalist KMT
4aj5 TIL In 1987, a guy bought a lifetime unlimited first class American Airlines ticket for $250,000. He flew over 10,000 flights costing the company $21,000,000. They terminated his ticket in 2008.