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TIL that the idea for Interstellar came from a physicist and a film producer who knew each other from a blind date set up by Carl Sagan

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QJve TIL a duck will pretend it is injured to distract a hyena and save her kids
KOKER TIL Steve Jobs didn't let his kids use iPads. "“They haven’t used [the iPad]...We limit how much technology our kids use at home.”
rJe1 TIL in 1975, a man died of laughter watching the “Kung Fu Kapers” episode of The Goodies. The skit featured a kilt-clad Scotsman with bagpipes battling a man with a black pudding. His widow later sent The Goodies a letter thanking them for making the final moments of her husband’s life so pleasant.
9wQBr TIL that the first human death by a Southern Cassowary was in Australia in 1926, when the bird defeated two brothers who were trying to hunt it. The older brother was killed via his jugular vein being cut, and the younger brother was scared off after being knocked over.
jLna TIL that during the Vietnam war a Chinook pilot saved his family by flying them to the American destroyer “Kirk”, dropping his children out of the helicopter onto the ship’s deck then rolling the Chinook onto its side and jumping into the sea.