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TIL after Tony Hawk complained about how bad the prototype skateboard emoji looked, he was invited to help redesign it

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BjXW TIL Henry “Hank” Aaron wore #4, hit 44 home runs in 4 different seasons, and when he broke Babe Ruth’s all-time HR record, it was the 4th inning of the 4th game of the 1974 season. Al Downing, the LA Dodgers pitcher who threw the ball that broke the record, wore #44.
vP0xB TIL about Operation X-Ray, a WW2 program to develop an incendiary bomb attached to the chests of bats. Dropped in a tube over Japanese cities, it was thought that the bats would go to roost under the eaves of the largely wooden buildings, and when the timed devices went off, the cities would burn.
Bgrkb TIL that Algeria’s national anthem “Kassaman” was first written by poet Moufdi Zakaria on the wall of his prison cell using his own blood after he was arrested and tortured during the Algerian independence movement
D19WD TIL The James Bond film Goldeneye has a tank chase scene filmed in St.Petersburg, Russia. Using the utmost care, the crew staged stunts and explosions in the historic heart of the city. Crew members spent a week emptying around 90,000 cans of Perrier for the stunt sequence
96Dr TIL that John McCain broke both arms and a leg, then had his shoulder crushed when his plane went down in North Vietnam. He was then tortured for two years, yet refused the early release offered to him because it did not include all American POWs. He lost 50 pounds and his hair turned white.