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TIL in 2011 researchers let 100 paper planes go 23 miles above Germany. Some have since been found in Canada, USA, Australia and South Africa.

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M7BEV TIL a study shows time passes 4 nanoseconds faster per day at the 450m-high Tokyo Skytree observation deck than at ground level. A University of Tokyo professor said clocks "will become tools for measuring time and space, such as differences in altitude, in line with the theory of relativity".
v1mbD TIL C-3PO's actor, Anthony Daniels, flubbed most of his lines on the first day of shooting STAR WARS. After repeatedly messing up, George Lucas came up to Daniels and said, "You can say anything you like. We can fix it later." Daniels then proceeded to speak his next lines in gibberish
kON05 TIL That two people died during the production of France's version of the show 'Survivor'. A contestant died from medical complications following a challenge, and then the doctor who treated him committed suicide a few days later.
mw7R TIL At age 14 “White Boy Rick” was hired as an informant for the DEA in Detroit, rose to the top of the drug game while helping to incarcerate the real kingpins. He is now in prison because DEA refuses to admit to hiring him.
5Y9jn TIL a Nazi party member that directed experiments on prisoners in Auschwitz, became president of Bayer after his release from prison.