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TIL not happy with the lighting for footage while filming Top Gun, the director asked the captain to turn the carrier. The captain said it would cost $25,000 so the director wrote a check on the spot

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LQRJr TIL that in Mongolia there is a tradition of giving names with unpleasant qualities to children born to a couple whose previous children have died, in the belief that it will mislead evil spirits seeking to steal the child. Examples include Khenbish 'Nobody' and Medekhgüi 'I Don't Know'
KOenQ TIL "The U.S. economy has performed better when the President of the United States is a Democrat rather than a Republican,almost regardless of how one measures performance."
6EoOm TIL On the Hawaiian island of Oahu, 31% of albatross pairs are same sex, 'lesbian' couples.
GE05 TIL the term “mosh” (as in “most pit”) originated with singer H.R. of Bad Brains. He would frequently incite the audience to “mash” into each other, and his thick Jamaican accent rendered the word as “mosh”.
odeR TIL in the 1800s it was common practice for museums to fix sculptures that had broken-off noses by creating & attaching a plaster replica. Today, Copenhagen’s Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek museum removed over 100 plaster noses, to give their sculptures a more pure look, & put them on display as a Nasothek.