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TIL Duct Tape, when pulled apart quickly in the dark, will glow blue

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MearV TIL jet engines are tested against bird strikes using a "Chicken Gun" that fires dead chicken bodies at them.
v1wEr TIL that just after shooting “The Goonies,” Richard Donner desperately needed a break and flew to his Hawaii home to get away. In response, Spielberg flew the cast to Hawaii, and Donner eventually came home to discover the child actors had emptied their luggage and were lounging on his furniture
xVjg1 TIL Crickets are 65%-70% protein whereas beef is 17%-40% protein
0d9aR TIL that the Gorrilaz hit, Clint Eastwood, has an iconic beat taken from a default preset on an Omnichord
x65Y0 TIL that the oldest dynastic house in Europe is the House of Wettin. King Charles III is a Wettin, by fact of being a distant descendant of Theodoric I or Dietrich I, who lived between 920-975 C.E.