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TIL cars featured in commercials and movies are typically CGI

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6waZ TIL falcons sometimes become sexually imprinted on humans. In order to bred them, the breeder lets the male bird copulate with his head while wearing a special hat with pockets to catch the semen.
0Ndp TIL Kurt Russell was actually in Forrest Gump … as the voice of Elvis Presley
BrRrb TIL the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab Kit was the world’s most dangerous toy,which included three sources of radiation and four uranium ores that are also radioactive. The kit, which first went on sale in 1950, came with an instruction booklet and pamphlet on how to prospect uranium.
grB17 TIL that platypuses (platypi?) don't have nipples and secrete milk through their abdominal skin. Also there are no known pain relief medication that can treat platypus venom, since the venom affects unknown pain response pathways in humans
8d0a TIL J.K. Rowling lost her billionaire status because she donated so much of her money to charity