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TIL the German GSG9 counter-terrorist force has completed over 1,500 missions and yet only discharged a weapon five times.

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oRRmR TIL that John Cena chose to act in all three "Fred" movies on Nickelodeon because he thought that the character's popularity was a cultural milestone and that Lucas Cruikshank's (the main actor) quick rise from posting on YouTube to getting a movie deal was the embodiment of the American Dream.
jNaGp TIL that the sounds we hear in nature documentaries,including popular ones like Planet Earth II,are almost always created by Foley artists in studios with commonplace objects.Eg.Magnetic film tape are used to create the sound of a spider walking and a slinky to make the web shooting sounds.
awAgL TIL of the "Jesus nut", a helicopter part so important, that if it were to fail in flight, to only thing left for the crew to do would be to pray to Jesus.
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DQMWD TIL although her 27-year-old son died from cancer in 2020, a Spanish mother was still able to fulfill her dream of becoming a grandmother by using his frozen sperm. His daughter was born in 2023.