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Jet/planes are tested by blasting 800 gallons of water per minute, ice balls, and dead chickens at running engines to assure that they hold their form.

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je5R TIL that General Motors hired private investigators and prostitutes to try and catch Ralph Nader in compromising situations, in an attempt to discredit him after he published a book on car safety in 1965.
jNawj TIL after the Yankees lost a game, player Phil Linz was playing harmonica on the bus. Manager Yogi Berra shouted for him to stop. Linz didn't hear clearly, and asked Mickey Mantle what he said. Mantle replied "He said play louder." A minor fight ensued, and Berra eventually got fired.
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OGeW1 TIL that after a mention that Paul McCartney liked Jelly Babies, fans started throwing them at the Beatles during live concerts. In the USA, fans started throwing jelly beans at them after mistaking them to be the same thing. One concert had to be stopped twice because the Beatles kept getting hit.