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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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N7aQM TIL Quantum Immortality is a thought experiment according to which self conscious beings cannot experience death. According to the experiment, the self conscious being’s mind would just switch to another reality in which its death did not occur.
Oo5Z7 TIL of “telling the bees”, a European custom in which bees would be told of important events in their keeper’s lives, such as births or marriages. If the custom was forgotten then it was believed the bees would leave the hive or stop producing honey.
R7xW7 TIL that Michael Dorn has more on-screen appearances playing the same character (Worf) than any other actor in the Star Trek franchise: 282 episodes and four movies
xVA95 TIL the US military's Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) can project speech narrowly enough to be heard by a single person 300m away. American soldiers in Iraq used the device to speak directly to specific insurgents, claiming to be the voice of God and ordering their surrender
1a0DO TIL TIL Despite "Timmy's In The Well" being what most people remember from the famous show "Lassie" which ran for 571 episodes that scene never happened. Timmy never fell down a well, he did however fall into abandoned mine shafts, off cliffs, into rivers, lakes and quicksand, to name a few.