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TIL that actors Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are siblings.

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6EPgY TIL that Joaquin Phoenix flipped his car, and in the wreckage, he heard a voice say, "Just relax." He replied, "I'm fine. I am relaxed." The man replied, "No you're not," and stopped Phoenix from lighting a cigarette while gasoline was leaking into the car. This man was famed director Werner Herzog.
ndpB TIL: When an F18 is catapulted from its carrier, the pilot doesn’t actually take the controls. The acceleration is so brisk that the pilot would pitch down thinking that the nose was to high and crash into the ocean. They instead just hold handle they call the “towel rail”
LQ0r0 TIL about “Old Sparky”. Tennessee’s electric chair is over 100 years old and is reportedly made from the wood of the former gallows
rRj0M TIL the Carrier Dome in Syracuse sported sixteen 5 foot diameter fans around the clock. Increasing the power of the fans boosts the air pressure in the facility, adding tension to the roof’s fabrics and cables to help avoid entire stadium from collapsing from weight of winter snow
Y7mEP TIL we can eat some species of jellyfish.