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TIL Paul McCartney had jets emit dry ice to remove clouds from the sky so that he could perform “Good Day Sunshine” in sunny weather.

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MN87 TIL Domino’s Pizza cancelled their ‘30 minutes or less’ guarantee because of their drivers causing accidents while rushing to deliver pizzas on time, resulting in at least one fatality.
Y7XEd TIL that the Polish opera "Halka" was staged in Cazale, Haiti, to highlight the village's connection with Poland: Many of its inhabitants are descendents of the Polish legionnaires sent by Napoleon to put down the Haitian Revolution.
m10wO TIL the reason the stitch length dial goes from 0 to 4 or 7, depending on the sewing machine, is because the dial is calibrated in millimeters for stitches per inch.
neE7d TIL: The film Homicidal (1961) features a 'fright break' before the climax. The break gave the audience a chance to leave and get a refund before it got too scary. People that left got their pictures taken and added to 'Coward's Corner' which was used to advertise how scary the film was.
Ll6p TIL The United States tested what a nuclear blast would do to a human by using pigs. “The test was a failure; unlike people, the pigs managed to survive with third degree burns all over their body.”