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TIL that property owners only have rights to about 500 feet in elevation, and the FAA is seeking to lower this limit for drone use, which is increasing.

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neByP TIL about Wangari Mathaai, the first African Woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She founded the Green Belt movement that helped plant 30 million trees and empowered women to get involved in social change.
5rXQ TIL Bill Murray was paid $9,000 for his role in Wes Anderson’s Rushmore. He also gave Wes a $25,000 check to pay for a helicopter scene the that the studio wouldn’t finance
5YyyP TIL Toronto has around 90 fake houses (they look real on the outside) which contain transformers that convert raw, high voltage electricity to a voltage low enough to distribute throughout the city.
LeYP TIL that Richard Harris, the first actor to play Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter film series did not originally want to play the character due to his poor health, but was encouraged to by his 11-year-old granddaughter when she threatened never to speak to him again if he did not.
e7Z5 TIL For a period of thirty years a man weighed everything he ate and drank, as well as all of his waste, in order to study metabolism