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TIL a large number of the people we see fired in the film 'Up in the Air' (2009) are not actors, but real people who were recently laid off. They were instructed to respond as they did when they were laid off, or use the opportunity to say what they wished they had.

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M7ojA TIL that the famed Rolls Royce Merlin aircraft engine used during WW2 era in the Hurricane, Spitfire and P-51 Mustang fighters is named after the bird of prey (a falcon, formerly known as pigeon hawk in US) and not the magician
woKb7 TIL antivenom is made by injecting small amounts of venom into farm animals until they produce antibodies which are then extracted via drawing the animal’s blood.
9wKjr TIL that when boxer Sonny Liston became world heavyweight, he had prepared a speech for the crowd he was told would be greeting him at the airport. No crowd turned up, and this is put at the point that Liston realised he would never be accepted as champion.
oBBwE An electrical implant known as a deep-brain stimulator is giving some patients a new start.
oRV7A TIL the Dome of Rock in Jerusalem, significant in Abrahamic religions, was once the head quarters for the Knights Templars