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TIL of the "Stormtrooper Effect" to describe how the hero shoots more accurately as he becomes outnumbered or increasingly desperate. Meanwhile villains miss more shots as they outnumber the hero.

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QJjbe TIL pigeons are everywhere because humans domesticated them 10,000 years ago for food, and have since been using them for other things until they were abandoned and perfectly adapted for an urban environment
AD55d TIL the last naval battle between battleships in history occurred in 1944
m1moR TIL emergency oxygen masks on airplanes only last for ~10-14min.
ne4p9 TIL green screens are green because it doesn’t match any natural skin tone of the actor so no part of them will be accidentally edited out.
9Y9gB TIL of "MileHighClub" tours, which chartered flights with voyeur cams from Florida for people who wanted to have “sex in the sky”. The company suspended operations after an elderly couple booked the “Quickie” flight & were killed trying to hijack the plane to Cuba, crashing it into the sea