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TIL that in the German-language version of 'Airplane' (1980), the Barbara Billingsley jive scene was dubbed in a Bavarian dialect that other German speakers have difficulty understanding. The joke is as effective in the dubbed version as in the English original.

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OvaR TIL of the Burkitshi - nomadic hunters of Mongolia. They capture a golden eagle at the age of four, and train it to become a hunting partner. The Burkitshi live and sleep with the eagle for ten years, and then it is released back into the wilderness before death.
8aDyV TIL resident killer whales in the eastern North Pacific form matrilineal social groups, consisting of the eldest female, her children, and the descendants of her daughters. Closely related matrilines with similar dialects form aggregations called pods, which in turn form clans and communities.
kJvB5 TIL the 145m year old araucaria araucana (or monkey puzzle tree) has survived mass extinctions and ice ages, but is currently endangered
XXEk TIL there is a 19 km long “blob” of unusual black algae that is floating in the arctic ocean between Russia and Alaska. Scientists have not been able to determine the species.
KOg0w TIL upon being told he couldn't go to Disneyland due to security concerns, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev went berserk. He said afterwards, "Is there an epidemic of cholera there or something? Or have gangsters taken hold of the place that can destroy me?” Khrushchev left LA the next morning.