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TIL A Group of Owls Is Called A Parliament

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kQn5 TIL Ron Howard directed his first feature film for Roger Corman, famous for squeezing production budgets. Years later on Apollo 13 he cast Corman as a senator who complains about the high cost of moon missions.
G0yQ TIL that a man once made a deal to pay a then 90-year old woman 2500 franc a month in order to inherit her aparment when she died. She eventually outlived the man with him dying 30 years later. The woman became the oldest person on earth, living to be 122.
DQADg TIL the world’s oldest living trees are thought to be in Tasmania, Australia. Some Huon Pine trees growing on the island are estimated to be more than 10,000 years old.
6VRJ TIL that even though mid-air collisions between 2 aircraft are extremely rare, there has been 1 recorded incident of a mid-air collision involving 3 aircraft in 1988.
4XRk6 TIL Inmate Merle Haggard was in the audience when Johnny Cash played San Quentin State Prison