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TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger was going to play Kyle Reese in the 1984 film The Terminator

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Gra1 TIL Frank Whittle, the inventor of the turbojet engine, wrote: “Good thing I was too stupid to know this” on a academic report stating gas turbine aircraft engines were “beyond the realm of possibility”.
Wp88 TIL that the two pilots on a british airways flight can’t order the same meal for safety reasons
RoaQ TIL Chinese people hate seat-belts so much they wear fake ones on their t-shirts and use novelty buckles (including bottle openers) to silence the alarms.
6DPY TIL The first guy to win “Who Wants to be Millionnaire?” John Carpenter, used none of his lifelines until the final question, where he called his Dad and told him that he didn’t need any help on the final question and just wanted to let him know that he is about to win 1,000,000$
X0Lrj TIL the Flamen Dialis, the high priest of Jupiter in Ancient Rome, was subject to many restrictions, such as not allowed to touch or mount a horse, not allowed to have a knot in any part of his attire, not walk along a path over-canopied by vines and not touch or name a dog.