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TIL Most planes are not able to fly while empty due to balance issues, sand bags and spare tires are used to fix these balance issues

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1axbO TIL that in Japanese, 緑 (green) was taught to be a shade of 青 (blue) until the occupation of Japan in WW2. Japanese people still regularly use 青 to describe traffic lights and unripe fruit
rodd TIL The actor who played Darth Vader, David Prowse, stopped learning his lines after learning his voice would be dubbed over. Instead, he would improvise lines, sometimes speaking complete gibberish, forcing his co-stars to respond as if he had said the correct line.
Zp4mp TIL the customizer who created the Jaguar Hearse in Harold & Maude didn't see the movie until 2016, 45 years after its debut.
N71VQ TIL in February 1978, amateur adventurer Dave Voelker walked across a frozen Lake Erie on foot, departing the coast near Sandusky, Ohio and arriving the next evening in Colchester, Ontario, a distance of 28 miles.
6EA6l TIL that top American businessmen plotted to overthrow FDR and install a fascist dictatorship