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TIL that in 1976, a giant inflatable pig being used in a Pink Floyd photo shoot broke free and caused all flights at London Heathrow to be grounded and the Royal Air Force to send helicopters to search for it. It landed in a farmer's field unscathed where it scared all of his cows.

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XEQMX TIL that Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was patterned heavily after Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" . Many of the lines Khan gives are copied or otherwise patterned after Ahab's while Khan himself obsesses over his personal white whale, the Enterprise and her captain.
a8Mbo TIL gut worms are really common, and can benefit your health.
ADmMw TIL that a man was convicted to prison for a lifetime due to a testimony given by a ghost.
Vo60 TIL that today is the 100 year anniversary the first woman to parachute from an airplane. She was also the first person to free-fall (jump without a static line), and is credited for the term ‘rip cord’ when she got tangled during a static line jump and had to cut herself free during a jump.
x8GB TIL- There is an FBI article about the speech patterns of psychopaths.