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TIL that a 25 MILLION FPS camera exists and uses mirrors to track target objects

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aD9N TIL Ewan Mcgregor’s real life uncle played Wedge Antilles, the only other person aside from Luke Sky walker to survive both death stars
j6n0a TIL that brown rats originate from China and only spread to the rest of the old world during the Middle Ages.
p8EpA TIL The black-and-white Navigation Cameras on Curiosity’s mast show that it had to manoeuvre its robotic arm to act as a selfie stick. The arm and turret along with it were moved to face the rover and had to be moved a lot to capture the 86 images.
5Vv4n TIL Natalie Holt, the music composer for the Paddington movie and Loki TV show, threw eggs at Simon Cowell to protest his "dreadful influence on the music business" when she was performing in the backing orchestra for one of the finalists in Britain's Got Talent.
LLZ0 TIL that Nelson Rockefeller, once vice President of the United States, died at age 79. of a heart attack rumoured to be caused during sex with his assistant. The New York Magazine quipped: “Nelson thought he was coming, but he was going”