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TIL that a clapperboard - that square hinged device that you clap the top of at the start of filming a scene - is clapped in frame like that to make it easier to sync the audio and video when editing it later.

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ADneo TIL that in February 1970, an amateur photographer was taking photos around an airport in Sydney, Australia. It was only after the film was developed that he realized he captured a stowaway's final moments as he fell out of the wheel well of a plane taking off and fell 56 meters to his death.
v5nK TIL that in 1897, an internal Western Union memo said that “This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication”.
9YpKB TIL Einstein mused that he would have liked to have been a plumber, and promptly was awarded honorary membership in the plumbers’ union
d8N5E TIL Granulation on the sun is visible only in excellent seeing with high power and at least a 4-inch aperture filtered telescope. Sometimes called rice grain or lemon peel, this textured appearance is due to hot gas continually boiling up to the Sun’s surface, cooling, and sinking down again
Rej7 TIL that the person who designed Star Wars’ Darth Maul was instructed to make Maul “a vision from your worst nightmare”, and based the design on an actual nightmare he had. When he presented the design to George Lucas, Lucas shuddered and told him “Give me your second worst nightmare.”