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TIL there is a runway where you roll your airplane off a cliff and drop until you have enough airspeed to fly

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ZZp TIL Andy and Red’s opening chat in the Shawshank Redemption, in which Red is throwing a baseball, took 9 hours to shoot. Morgan Freeman threw the ball all 9 hours and returned for work the next day with his arm in a sling.
MeQ1m TIL that because male chicks are virtually useless to the meat industry, soon after they hatch they are put into a maceration a large high-speed grinder.
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