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TIL that astronauts often lose fingernails due to their glives during spacewalks. Some remove their fingernails before they leave.

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nWGwB TIL while filming Metropolis (1927) they would often end up with more children in the evening than in the morning. Coming from the poorest areas of Berlin, the children would sneak onto set or climb over the fence to experience the warm rooms, games, toys, cocoa, cake, and regular meals
jNMYa TIL Sushi is the vinegared rice, not the raw fish (or other) that comes when you order it.
x64R5 TIL in 1978, a researcher played a deceased elephant’s calls from a hidden speaker. Her family responded by frantically searching and calling out for her, with the daughter continuing for days. Moved by their grief, the researcher decided never to repeat the experiment.
oeor TIL that the artificial sweetner sucralose was discovered when a researcher misheard a command to “test this chemical” as “taste this chemical”.
YrBr TIL that Gwyneth Paltrow’s father forbade her from accepting a lead role in the movie “Cool as Ice” starring Vanilla Ice, because he thought it could hurt her career.