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TIL it's 30 years since the Eternal September.
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TIL Argentine composer Lalo Schifrin wrote the Mission:Impossible theme for the 1960s TV series. The main rhythm is based on the Morse code for the letters M and I (--..) in a 5/4 time signature.
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TIL During the filming of the climactic flood scene in Noah’s Ark (1928), the great volume of water used was so overwhelming (600,000 gallons) that three extras drowned, one was so badly injured that his leg needed to be amputated, and a number suffered broken limbs and other serious injuries
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TIL a Canadian man getting a rectal exam by his doctor at a hospital was observed by people he assumed were medical practitioners/med students. He sued the hospital and observers after learning the observers were two actors who play doctors on TV doing research for the TV series "Saving Hope."
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TIL: Sour candy can help with panic attacks
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TIL During the Vietnam War, an Army aviator scored an air-to-air kill by shooting down a MiG from his fixed-wing Mohawk observer aircraft. The kill was kept secret since U.S. military doctrine stated that the Air Force has sole control of air superiority.