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TIL The inventor of waterbeds tried to use Jello

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1aRr8 TIL that a bunch of people actually thought Stephen Spielberg actually shot and killed a triceratops.
epRKn Today I learned that, after Phil Hartman's death, the Simpsons staff considered casting Harry Shearer as the replacement voice actor for the character Lionel Hutz, but decided to retire Lionel Hutz instead.
XEbjQ TIL to measure the intensity of a hurricane, a weather plane can release roughly 30 probes called dropsondes. At $800 each, there are hundreds of thousands of these on the bottom of the ocean.
KOgPB TIL that Benedict Cumberbatch, Doctor Strange in the MCU, saved a cyclist from an attempted robbery by fighting off a gang of muggers in London. He was in an uber when he saw 4 muggers jumping a delivery cyclist. He got out, screamed at the attackers and then dragged them off of the victim.
b6nA4 TIL that in Wuppertal, Germany in 1950, the circus elephant Tuffi broke through a window of a moving overhead railway and fell 12 metres down in a river, while on promotion tour for a circus. Luckily she survived with minor injuries.