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690bm TIL during Obon, an annual family reunion holiday in Japan, the spirits of ancestors are believed to revisit household altars, and to help them come back home and return, a cucumber horse and an eggplant cow are crafted as vessels, respectively.
yQg1e TIL that "dry lightning" and "heat lightning" are myths. They are actually just extremely distant thunderstorms.
W7VxL TIL that movie composer Hans Zimmer employs a number of other composers, as well as orchestrators and sound engineers, to help write and arrange the music for his movie scores.
woDoJ TIL that standard 24 fps film creates a flicker effect; rather than use more film, projectors just show every frame twice to simulate 48 fps
b6Bo4 TIL that the social huntsman spiders live in complex family groups up to 150-strong, led by a dominant matriarch. A single mum establishes a family and her offspring from one to four clutches remain with her until they are almost one year old.