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TIL rain does not impact the flying ability of a helicopter. There is no noticeable performance decrease due to 'rain alone'.

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QAp9 TIL: Oprah Winfrey hired the company Courtroom Sciences, Inc. to help her analyze and read the jury during her Texas cattlemen lawsuit. She was so impressed by the head of the company, Phil McGraw, that she eventually had him appear weekly on her show, before his own show was launched.
LQDdZ TIL that Cassowary meat is so tough that people were told to cook it with a stone in the pot. "When the stone is ready to eat, so is the Cassowary."
78DgM TIL that the methods Mickey Goldmill used to train Rocky Balboa, were based on those used by Rocky Marciano’s trainer Charley Goldman.
ZKBo TIL that the firefox logo is actually a red panda, and that ‘firefox’ is another name for red pandas.
op77 TIL That 70 years ago, waves of mass-suicide swept Germany at the end of WWII. Whole families would tie themselves together and go into the water or hang their children first and then themselves.