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QN9a TIL that in Scream, when Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich) was stabbed with an umbrella, his pain was real - the second stab missed his safety suit, impacting a fresh wound from open-heart surgery.
R57Ya TIL of John Graham, who hated his mother so much he hid 25 sticks of dynamite and a timed detonator in her suitcase before a flight. It was one of the first ever attacks of a commercial flight; all 44 aboard died.
WkYlN TIL some of the first US spy satellites took imagery on 70 millimeter film, which was recovered by dropping huge film canisters from space and catching them mid-air by a passing US Air Force plane
9YRbX TIL that if the SR-71 was attacked by surface-to-air missiles, it simply flew higher, faster, and in a slightly different direction to outrun them.
KYYER TIL because Pillsbury forced "The Great British Bake Off" to be called "The Great British Baking Show" in the US, a lot of creative editing had to be done to obscure the logo in the show, including using computer-assisted VFX to change the text on the trophy