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TIL The logo for BMW is designed to resemble an aircraft propeller

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5VQJQ TIL that in "Maleficent", Angelina Jolie's own daughter had to play the younger version of Aurora, because they were unable to find any other young girl who wasn't too scared to go near Angelina in her Maleficent costume.
Elnd TIL of a NASA employee, George Aldrich, whose job is to sniff things to check if they have an unpleasant smell before they can be flown to space.
YMbP TIL there was a magazine called Continuum that promoted AIDS denialism that went out of print because both of the editors died of AIDS
BKJd TIL: When professional basketball player Kris Humphries was 10 years old, he was ranked the No. 1 swimmer for his age nationally. The person ranked No. 2 was a young Michael Phelps.
8p8 TIL In 1980, a brutal riot took place at the New Mexico State Penitentiary. At one point, the rioters broke into the isolated prisoners cellblock (containing sex criminals, mentally unstable, prison snitches, etc.) where they brutally tortured and killed at least 33 prisoners.