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EgVe7 TIL the word "nuclear" is very often mis-spoken as "nucular". The pronunciation has often been used to signify low intellect and it has been said by numerous famous people and referenced in shows like Family Guy, the Simpsons and Woody Allen's 1989 film Crimes and Misdemeanors
Yp4ax TIL Giant aneater has razor sharp claws that can fend off puma, jaguar and capable of kill human in one slash. There were 2 occasions that hunters were killed because they attempted to “corner an wounded anteater”
e0KEb TIL that after his infant son was seriously injured in an accident, the author Roald Dahl helped to invent a medical device, the Dahl-Wade-Till shunt. The device has since been used to help over 3000 children worldwide.
nWZkW TIL that before the advent of air guitar in the 1960s, music listeners would "shadow conduct" to phonograph records, pretending to lead an orchestra
78dJO TIL in 1968 the pilot of a Japan Airlines flight from Tokyo to San Francisco accidentally landed the plane in the ocean just over 2 miles short of the runway. All 107 passengers survived with no injuries. The plane was recovered with only minor damage and was returned to service a year later.