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TIL Harrison Ford has used his helicopter to come to the rescue of real-world hikers in distress once by saving a woman on top of an Idaho mountain and once by joining a search and rescue mission for a 13-year-old Boy Scout lost in the woods.

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v1Dvj TIL that the "Jonny Quest" (1964) theme was written by the composer Hoyt Curtin to be impossible for the Trombonists to play correctly, after getting ribbing from his Trombone section about writing music that was too easy to play.
N6ob TIL that is theoretically possible to build an entire working computer out of dominoes.
LQM5P TIL July 2 is the midpoint of a common year
5Wxn TIL… Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, dropped acid after he got sober.
E1EmW TIL in 1940, French soldiers in Lille held off a German force 5 times their size, allowing 100,000 more Allied troops to evacuate at Dunkirk and prompting the German general to grand them an Honours of War ceremony after the surrender