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TIL that Captain America's shield in the first Ironman movie was only there as a joke from an ILM artist during cinesync sessions to which Jon Favreau wanted to leave in just to see who else might notice it.

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Lkk8Q Yes, but it takes a long, long time.
jN61n TIL that electric cars had some success 100 years ago circa 1910. It was Thomas Edison's first car, and Jay Leno has one too.
p8Xr8 TIL about the arrow of time paradox. Events at the microscopic level are time-symmetric, meaning that if time were symmetrical, a video of those events would seem realistic whether played forwards or backwards. But this isn't the case at the macroscopic level. There is no good explanation for this.
GYpYj TIL that Albert Hoffman, the discoverer of LSD, dosed himself at exactly 4:20pm on Apr. 19, 1943, and then went on a bike ride.
W7eXY TIL male dolphins will kill baby dolphins of another father so that the female will be available to mate with them.