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TIL: There Are Only 25 Blimps on Earth
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TIL the Federal Reserve hosts central bankers in Jackson Hole because Paul Volcker liked fly fishing and they wanted him to actually show up
Lk8op
TIL that the 20th Century Fox logo has a hidden sync mark. The flash in the bottom right at 0:11 lines up with the last beat before the finale. Editors & mixers use that to make sure the audio & picture are in sync.
dDRod
TIL that in 1933, FBI Director John Edgar Hoover learned of a namesake who had failed to pay a debt of $900 to a store in Washington. As Hoover was particular about paying his bills on time and so did not want to be associated with this disreputable behavior, he changed his name to "J. Edgar Hoover"
rNa94
TIL Elsa from Frozen (Idina Menzel) is married to Max from A Goofy Movie (Aaron Lohr, singing voice)
nWEpr
TIL, from March to July in 2018, an arctic fox was tracked walking 4,350 km across the sea ice from Norway to Greenway to Canada averaging 47 km per day, eventually settling on Ellesmere Island. It provided evidence on how arctic species remain connected even when scattered across islands.