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TIL You Shouldn’t Use Cotton Swabs to Clean Your Ears as old earwax is pushed out naturally

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9wY5r TIL Helen Keller, a famous American woman known for overcoming deafness and blindness to lead a successful life, was a Socialist political activist, and lead a commission in the IWW for blind and disabled people.
E1M57 TIL In Raiders’ iconic truck chase, Spielberg filmed Harrison Ford for only a few seconds (closeups). 2nd unit director, Michael D Moore, filmed most of the scene with stunt doubles, including Terry Leonard who performed Indy dragged underneath the truck and cameoed as the first Nazi truck driver
R5gw TIL The US government, in 1962, brainstormed ways to get the American Population to go to war with Cuba. One idea was to fake the Hijacking of Airliners.
epDG5 TIL Mars is known as the "Red Planet" due to iron oxide, or rust, on its surface. It has a thin atmosphere of mostly carbon dioxide covered in canyons, volcanoes, and desert. Scientists believe Mars may have had liquid water on its surface in the past, making it a target for space exploration.
5N5R TIL: Some of the sounds of the dinosaurs in Jurassic World were made from the slowed down version of tortoises having sex.