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TIL that in 1980 the movie crew of “Indiana Jones and the raiders of the lost ark” had to remove over 300 TV antennas from the Tunisian 1980 background of Kairouan to resemble the 1936 Cairo background until a man wearing blue jeans and a t-shirt strolls through the background just minutes later.

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6BdQ TIL The Resplendent Quetzal was once thought impossible to keep in captivity as it killed itself or died soon after being captured or caged, until a zoo in Mexico successfully kept and breed them in captivity.
8YG4 TIL that a man once robbed two banks with lemon juice on his face, thinking that lemon juice’s “invisible ink” property would erase his face from security camera footage.
pjWb TIL that Teddy Roosevelt was so bored as VP of the United States that he seriously considered finishing law school while serving.
kvx4 TIL The survival rate in plane crashes is 95.7 percent!
p8yKb TIL that an Indian buffalo racer by the name of Srinivas Gowda allegedly ran 142m in 13.42 seconds, which when converted to the 100m is the equivalent of 9.55 seconds, .03 seconds faster than Usain Bolt.