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TIL that milk is sprayed on vineyards to prevent grapes from becoming mildewed.

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w4xo TIL that Astronaut John Glenn became the oldest person in space at 77 after “lobbying NASA for two years to fly as a human guinea pig for geriatric studies”.
QmVd TIL that in 2008, Hancock outgrossed Iron Man by almost 40 million. One of them never got the sequel while the other one spawned a decade long multi-billion dollar franchise.
ANO6l TIL that the film, "First Blood" - set in the fictional town of Hope, Washington - was filmed in Hope, British Columbia where they recently erected a statue of John Rambo
XOjD TIL A murderer in Russia killed 61 people in his aim to kill 1 person for each square of the chess board.
E1gld TIL that the Slinky was invented by accident, when a Mechanical Engineer was working to devise springs that could keep sensitive ship equipment steady at sea. After accidentally knocking some samples off a shelf, he watched in amazement as they gracefully “walked” down instead of falling.