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TIL that there is a hypothetical type of creatures called “ATMOSPHERIC BEASTS”. According Carl Sagan they could live in the atmosphere of a gas giant, such as Jupiter.

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R7e67 TIL John Everett Millais had a model sit in a bathtub for five months for his painting depicting Lady Ophelia's death by drowning.
DQYOJ TIL Geese are the oldest known domesticated bird species
X7JQ TIL an undercover Israeli agent armed only with a .22 stopped a group of terrorist attacking an aircraft with grenades and AK47, After securing the event he was arrested and put to trial in Switzerland
xVbdD TIL that for the 1981 movie Escape from New York, the futuristic “computer graphics” shots of three-dimensional wireframe animations was made using handmade miniature models. Real computer graphics would have been far more expensive.
6EZyl TIL Two New York Yankees pitchers swapped wives and children--they announced the "change-up" at a press conference in 1973