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TIL Why the Trees on Your Street Smell Like Semen

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GYXOg TIL the bomber cockpit in Dr. Strangelove was based on a B-29 cockpit because the real B-52 bombers were off limit to the film crew. It turned out to be so accurate that Stanley Kubrick feared that his research team had done their job illegally and that they're about to be investigated by the FBI.
P1k4L TIL the word Orangutan is derived from the Malay words orang (person) and hutan (forest). It's entirely co-incidental that they have orange fur.
R71g1 TIL there is a font called "Public Sans" that is available for personal and commercial use
Gwv4 TIL that there is an actual name for the shape of Pringles - a Hyperbolic Paraboloid
0wmQA TIL Jean Keene, "Eagle Lady". An activist who fed bald eagles on her farm in Homer, Alaska. She fed an estimated 227kg of fish every day and environmentalists are concerned that she changed the eagles migratory pattern. Homer now forbids bird feeding as they have become a general public menace.