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TIL that when the TV show “Frasier” was at its most popular, Moose (the dog who played Eddie) received more fan mail than any of the human characters

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yXMJ TIL of the “electrolaser”, a real world directed-energy weapon which fires laser-guided lightning bolts. When fired, a laser forms a channel of supercharged plasma out of the surrounding air, creating a path for the lightning and also causing a sonic boom.
66EJ TIL of a parachute system for small planes that has thus far saved 90 lives
R0Oj TIL that Sylvester Stallone, with $106 in his bank account, refused an offer of $360,000 for a script he had written in his career’s infancy, in favor of making it himself. That script was Rocky.
EgPbV TIL where the "Did a dingo eat your baby?" joke from The Rugrats Movie came from. Based on a real case, the Evil Angels film has a scene where the murder-accused mother says, "The dingo took my baby!" It gets misquoted in a bunch of shows as "a dingo ate my baby."
nWDvr TIL Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport was the world's first airport to hit 100 million passengers in year, doing so in 2015