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TIL in responding to why he starred in Jaws: The Revenge, Michael Caine said “I have never seen the film, but by all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.”

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DQdyY TIL the 2023 Canadian wildfires burned an area larger than approximately 55% of the combined land area of all EU countries (9,419,818 hectares)
eMxn TIL Rick and Morty started as The Adventures of Doc and Mharti, “a pornographic vandalization,” of Back to the Future where “Doc Brown urges Mharti that the solution to all of his problems is to give him oral sex.”
yM6p TIL There’s a shade of blue that doesn’t reproduce on a black and white copy machine or grayscale scan. It’s used extensively in the graphic design industry.
AOw4 TIL of the “Night-Witches,” a Russian regiment of all-female aviators during WWII. Despite only flying slow, obsolete planes, the regiment is said to have dropped over 3,000 tons of bombs and each pilot to have flown over 1,000 missions.
l70jV TIL I learned of a gamma ray burst that struck earth with such intensity it had the same effects as a powerful solar flair. The source of the burst was over two billion light years away.