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TIL There's a 30 Year-Old Airline That's Never Flown

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b9mOp TIL that the first recorded use of Forensic Entomology was by Chinese detective in 1200s AD. In a murder investigation in a village, detective Song Ci put every scythe in the village for inspection and found the culprit when flies- attracted to trace amounts of blood- kept landing on his scythe.
DQQdY TIL During Episode IV – A New Hope, the creative team needed to come up with a way to make Luke’s speeder look like it was actually flying. They figured out that they could cover the wheels with mirrors to make it look like it was in flight.
yQ8kp TIL that the band 'Redbone' which had the hit single 'Come and Get Your Love' (featured in the opening of Guardians of the Galaxy 1) was made up men of Native American descent.
OokrL TIL that aquatic animals have their own version of a spa! They're called cleaning stations and any fish(or even hippo) can go park themselves at the station and get cleaned of grime and parasites. How cool is that?
VM8x0 TIL Mary Shelley published her novel "Frankenstein, the Modern Prometheus" at 19 years old, its themes of birth and death reflecting the deaths of both her first infant child and sister within a short timeframe, followed by pregnancy with another child who she carried throughout the book's writing.