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TIL The Black-capped Chickadee hides seeds and other food items to eat later. Each item is placed in a different spot and the chickadee can remember thousands of hiding places.

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jAQa TIL that during the filming for Top Gun, the cameraman pilot entered a flat spin in order to gain footage. This is the same flat spin that was portrayed in the movie which would ultimately kill “goose”.The spin was unrecoverable, killing the pilot/cameraman.
7KNP TIL Fiat produced a car in 1911 that did 180 mph (290 kph)
a8NYL TIL the author of the opinion in US v. The Amistad, Justice Joseph Story, was played by retired Justice Harry Blackmun in the movie "Amistad"
XeP TIL That the “Soap Opera Effect” is caused by a higher rate of frames per second. Soap Opera’s look this way because it is cheaper to film on video.
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