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TIL that penguins have an organ behind their eyes that turns sea water in to fresh water

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1Db8 TIL after the first edit of Star Wars came back as clunky and lackluster, Lucas spliced together a cut of World War II dogfights. The space battle in the final film is a frame for frame re-enactment of this. (1h41s)
poxN TIL in 1997 the founder and chief editor of Vegetarian Times magazine, Paul Obis, shocked readers by suddenly resigning saying “Twenty two years of tofu is a lot of time” and “I want to go to Wrigley Field and have a hot dog”.
N7j5J TIL research suggests that a future Martian colony should grow and develop completely independently from Earth. Its members would relinquish their Earthly citizenship, have no nation on Earth to answer to, and only establish diplomatic and economic relations with new crews that land on the planet.
KpQE TIL Frankie Muniz from Malcolm in the Middle also voiced Chester McBadbat from The Fairly Odd Parents
P1e9J TIL Much of the dialogue in the film "Fritz the Cat" was improvised or recorded on the streets of New York. For example, the director Ralph Bakshi went to a Harlem Bar with a tape recorder and spent hours talking to Black patrons and getting drunk with them while asking questions.