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TIL actors Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt were temporarily blinded with 'burnt retinas' on the set of Twister (1996) by bright lamps used to make the sky look stormy.

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y4dw TIL that Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron) was killed by a shot from the ground, rather than Captain Arthur “Roy” Brown, who was credited for the kill.
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xkYw TIL Nintendo still sells the playing cards they sold when the company started a hundred years ago. They also sell Go boards!
89VV TIL that by Indiana State law, you can’t smile on your license due to a security facial identifying program.