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TIL that the slow-motion footage of the forest chase scene in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows was produced by one of the Slow Mo Guys

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VjwB TIL Hawaii has only one native land mammal and it’s a bat. The rest are invasive.
0dov TIL President William McKinley always wore a red carnation on his lapel for good luck. He was assassinated in 1901 just minutes after giving it to a 12-year-old girl.
W7GmN TIL Louis Eppolito, who played Fat Andy in ‘Goodfellas’ and a detective in ‘Lost Highway’ among other roles, was an NYPD detective who led a double life as an associate of the Five Families
pDrZ TIL of Wabi-Sabi, a principle of Japanese aesthetics that emphasizes beauty found in imperfection
YdeZ TIL that we can drink alcohol because of a gene which most likely helped human ancestors make the most out of rotting, fermented fruit that fell onto the forest floor.