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TIL after a police search failed to find ex-WWE wrestler Ray Rougeau’s friend who was lost in the Canadian wilderness, Ray successfully found him by flying his own plane above the woods.

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QGpM TIL Islam allows slavery, and Muslim societies only began to outlaw it due to Western pressure in the mid 20th century
0w7lN TIL the 1992 Rage Against the Machine track "Killing In The Name" was the 2009 UK Christmas #1 song thanks to a campaign set to prevent a song from "The X Factor" from accomplishing the feat for a 5th straight year. The band would then perform a free concert in London thanking fans for the campaign.
xVWyD TIL Lynn Margulis, proponent for the significance of symbiosis in evolution (bacteria merging into other bacteria to form more complex cells), had such trouble getting her ideas recognized that a grant proposal was returned with "Your research is crap. Don't ever bother to apply again."
k0pB TIL removing earwax with Q-tips makes our ears dirtier, and can cause itchiness and infections
pY4QO TIL about "Go motion" a stop motion technique created by Phil Tippet in which they animate puppets connected to computers that record movements, then just filming the puppet being articulated by the computer replaying the movements it had recorded, all in order to avoid adding artificial motion blur