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TIL Wings (1927), not Top Gun, was one of the first collaborations with the DoD (War Department) and Hollywood.

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awVab TIL About Elizabeth Báthory, A Hungarian noble who was alleged to have tortured and murdered 650 young girls between 1585 and 1609 and bathed in their blood. She is deemed the most prolific murderer of all time.
8e1DP TIL Bees In order to communicate what they've found and where it is, they dance: 'round dances' and 'waggle dances'. The 'round dance' signals to their nest-mates that there is a lucrative pollen area nearby. The 'waggle dance' tells them exactly where it is and how far to go.
rReX4 TIL Terri Schiavo, the center of a famous right-to-die case, has three dates on her headstone: Born, Departed (the day she went into a vegetative state in 1990), and At Rest (the day she died after her feeding tube was removed in 2005)
NBoM TIL that after the extinction of the dinosaurs, there was a turtle that was the size of a car and could eat crocodiles.
6EwX8 TIL that people scored higher in a mental agility test while wearing a lab coat that they believed was a doctor's coat. The effect was not there when they believed the same white coat was a painter's coat. The study showed that we embody associations we have with particular clothes.