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TIL Spy Kids is on the National Film Registry, being added in 2024

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Dd5v TIL A moldy cantaloupe in Illinois in 1941 was found to contain the highest quality penicillin, after a worldwide search.
J1Q4j TIL Eric Idle of Monty Python responded to physicst Brian Cox's criticism of his "Galaxy song" by creating a sketch where Cox gets run over by Stephen Hawking
1agRX TIL in 2003 a herd of wild elephants released a group of captive antelopes from a game reserve in Southeast Africa. The matriarch of the herd undid all of the gate's metal latches with her trunk & then pushed it open. The antelope took their chance & ran into the bush followed by the elephants.
mx0op TIL that the blue whale is the biggest animal to have ever existed on Earth, surpassing even the biggest of dinosaurs
wKrW TIL that this week was the first time American Airlines has hired a flight attendant since 9/11