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TIL only 2% of the worlds population is blonde.

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N7NZJ TIL the line "I think it's across the bay, in Alameda" in Star Trek IV was ad-libbed by an extra. Studio had to get her to join the Actor Guild so they could keep the spontaneous line in the movie.
N78mN TIL that it's possible to weld wood by pressing two pieces together while one is vibrating at a high frequency
9YEoQ TIL before 1975, the BBC overwrote or destroyed old show tapes. Hundreds of Doctor Who episodes were thought lost forever, until a worldwide hunt began to turn them up—e.g. 2 in a London Mormon Church, and a goldmine 9 in Nigeria (employees had ignored instructions to burn them). 97 remain unfound.
b8XZ TIL of Adolf Tolkachev, the Soviet engineer and CIA Asset who singlehandedly provided enough information to compromise the MiG-29 and MiG-31, among other advanced avionics before being betrayed by EL Howard and executed by the KGB in 1985.
x00o TIL that the Irish last name prefix “Mac” means “son of” and prefix “O” means “grandson of”.