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TIL "Jet Ski" is a trademarked brand name belonging to Kawasaki. A neutral name for this type of vehicle is for example personal watercraft (PWC) or water scooter.

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P1WJV TIL that Peter Jackson directed over 20,000 cricket fans at a game to create the sound of the Uruk-hai army in the Battle of Helm's Deep in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
l7Gg7 TIL In 1976, the CAF in Texas sponsored an air show where a B-29 bomber piloted by Paul Tibbets, the pilot who flew the B-29 which bombed Hiroshima during World War II, reenacted the atomic bombing of Hiroshima (including a mock mushroom cloud)
QJEj9 TIL the producers of The Simpsons considered aborting the series if the second episode’s animation turned out as bad as the first, which was so appalling that after seeing it for the first time, they had to redo 70% of before it could go to air.
Eg5dp TIL The first standardized rain gauge was invented in 1441 by Korean King Sejong's son, Prince Munjong.
eW7b TIL: The word for stretching and yawning at the same time: pandiculation