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TIL Gene Roddenberry's only appearance in Star Trek was as a ship's chef who told Captain Kirk that the turkey-shaped meatloaf in the galley ovens had turned into real turkeys.

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9YpZD TIL of the Daisey Cutter, a bomb specifically designed to create helicopter landing pads in the thick jungle forests of Vietnam. The blast would level a 300+ ft circle while leaving the ground itself relatively unaffected.
xV70k TIL : The "thousand-yard stare" is a phrase often used to describe the blank, unfocused gaze of soldiers who have become emotionally detached from the horrors around them. It is also sometimes used more generally to describe the look of dissociation among victims of other types of trauma.
69LdZ TIL the version of "Earth Angel" by The Penguins that became an unexpected hit had only been recorded by the band as a literal garage demo; drums on the track were muffled with pillows so as to not overwhelm the vocals. A neighbour's pet dog stopped many takes by barking.
b9aM4 TIL that Marjorie Post heiress to the Post Cereal Company purchased the patents from Clarence Birdseye and created Birds Eye Frozen Foods. Post also developed a means to deliver the frozen foods Nationally via Train and also invented the see through freezers at Grocery Stores for visibility.
YpMAA TIL that two men from Indiana were wrongfully convicted in a 1996 armed robbery because of a false statement from an informant who had sex with the lead detective who set them up. 20 years later, they were found innocent and one of them received $4.9 Million settlement.