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TIL that while filming an episode of Hercules, Kevin Sorbo misread a stage direction as a line and dramatically screamed “DISAPPOINTED”. They left it in

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6EYRm TIL, Venus is the only planet that rotates around the sun in a clockwise pathway. All planets, when observed from the North Pole are seen to be rotating around the sun in an anti-clockwise direction on their elliptical orbits. Venus is observed to rotate in a clockwise manner.
R5WYw TIL about the hidden lofts and bunk bed compartments where airplane pilots and cabin crew rest and sleep between their shifts.
ADb14 TIL kid gloves are gloves made out of soft leather made from kids (young goats)
p81bG TIL Tsar Peter the Great put a special tax on men who grew beards
d5VB TIL when building the Golden Gate Bridge, the lead structural engineer insisted on the installation of a safety net even though its $130,000 cost was deemed exorbitant. Over the four years of its construction, the net saved 19 men, who named themselves the “Halfway to Hell Club.”