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TIL Russian Salyut Spacecraft carried working machine guns

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XEroD TIL Killer whales in the wild have not been responsible for a single human casualty.
M1J8 TIL Johnny Depp thought he was gonna get fired and replaced by Tom Hanks at the beginning of filming Edward Scissorhands because two girls knocked at his door and asked if Tom Hanks lived there
xVBYD TIL: Dr. Robert Lustig argues that the current obesity epidemic can be blamed on a marked increase in the consumption of a type of sugar called fructose over the last 30 years. Fructose as become ubiquitous in soft drinks and many processed foods.
j6eQR TIL that foxes in close proximity to each other make a sound similar to chickens clucking.
j6xNn TIL about Alvin “Tex” Johnson, a test pilot for Boeing who barrel rolled the 707 passenger jet prototype in 1955 over Seattle without orders. When asked he simply said: “I’m selling airplanes”.