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TIL compared to average shoppers, chefs are more likely to buy generic store brands for sugar, baking soda, and other kitchen staples

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MwPa TIL that no special effects were used to achieve zero gravity in the movie “Apollo 13”. Through 612 flight parabolic, approximately 4 hours was spent filming on board NASA’s “Vomit Comet” The KC-135, an aircraft designed to train astronauts for the weightlessness of space.
jNgLE TIL surrealist artist Salvador Dali had a pet anteater, delivered an art lecture wearing a full diving suit with two Russian wolfhounds at his side, and had a lifelong disgust for female genitalia after stumbling upon a picture book of venereal diseases as a child
LPJm TIL It’s illegal to enter Canada with a DUI
VM6Nk TIL Heroin became popular among american soldiers during the Vietnam war because it was easier to take secretly than marijuana.
LkJJZ TIL James Cromwell, the actor who played Farmer Hoggett in Babe, has since been arrested at least five times for animal rights activism