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TIL The Ka-50 helicopter has a ejection seat. Before the rocket in the seat deploys, the rotor blades are blown away by explosives in the rotor disc.

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BrZle TIL that during the filming of 'Kill Bill' Uma Thurman felt uncomfortable driving in one particular scene and requested a stunt man to do it. Tarantino declined this request and Thurman ended up losing control of the car, suffering a concussion and damage to her knees.
VMeeZ TIL Brad Fiedel accidentally composed the well-known main theme from 1984’s The Terminator in a very unusual time-signature: 13/16. This 2014 Slate article investigates the matter. (3rd Post Attempt)
XEJa8 TIL About “Coffin Clubs”- groups of old people in New Zealand who are banding together to make their own funeral caskets. They say that it helps combat loneliness and is a cost-effective way of having a coffin. They also make baby coffins and donate them to local hospitals.
4kam5 TIL The movie Footloose, which is about a town where dancing is prohibited, is inspired from a real town, Elmore City, Oklahoma. The ban started before statehood, and high-schoolers petitioned in 1980 to be able to dance at prom
oRn0W TIL that the Animal Planet reality series ‘River Monsters’ ended because star Jeremy Wade was able to catch essentially every exceptionally large freshwater fish species on earth, leaving no remaining content for the show