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TIL that everything that happened in the flying tank scene in “The A-Team” is plausible.

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eKyD TIL: The quintessentially 40’s-mid 60’s American futuristic Jetsonesque architecture (think Back To The Future, bowling alleys, diners etc) which includes monuments such as the “Welcome to Las Vegas” sign and the Seattle “Space Needle” is known as “Googie”
b9Yj0 TIL legendary director/actor/pilot John Huston once flew over a celebrity golf tournament and dropped 5,000 ping pong balls on it.
KObm9 TIL about Nuclear Semiotics - the study of how to warn people 10,000+ years from now about nuclear waste, when all known languages may have disappeared
9Y5om TIL that Maltese is derived from a form of Sicilian Arabic.
9PD7 TIL The scene in the breakfast club where they all talk about why they were in detention is completely unscripted