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TIL - Empty skies after 9/11 caused a measured change in temps due to lack of jet contrails in the sky

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VM7JD TIL that Michael Bublé was fired as an extra from The X-Files because he stole a hot dog off the craft services table.
JYvdl TIL the three-breasted prostitute that appeared in Total Recall, portrayed by actress Lycia Caff, was originally designed to be incorporated into Star Trek: The Next Generation, which first aired in 1987. Ship's counselor Deanna Troi was originally going to have three breasts, but she protested.
epyLD TIL that Nabokov saw each letter as a color. It's called grapheme-color synesthesia
xwGg TIL that until 1986, doctors did not think that babies could feel pain, and they performed open heart surgeries on infants without anesthesia.
n1rd TIL: Shuttlecocks, the projectiles used in Badminton, are made from feathers taken from only the left wing of a bird; this ensures they rotate counter-clockwise.