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TIL that the film Top Gun: Maverick was actively supported and influenced by the United States Department of Defense and the United States Navy to present the U.S. military in a positive light and aid in recruitment and retention.

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kORe TIL the chills you get when listening to music are caused by the release of dopamine in your body.
rNGDd TIL Llanfairpwllgwyngyll-gogerychwyrndrobwlllllandysiliogogogoch is the name of a town in Wales.
ee7k TIL Stephen King said “Harry Potter” author JK Rowling is a terrific writer, while “Twilight” author Stephenie Meyer “can’t write worth a darn.”
vPNeK TIL that the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities.
OGLW6 TIL Komodo dragons can have so-called virgin births. As well as mating with males the species is parthenogenetic: in other words, the females can lay fertile eggs without any input from males. This will only reproduce identical young, however. For the species to continue to adapt, it needs to mate.