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TIL the original script for Predator (1987) involved one soldier fighting the Predator. This bothered Arnold Schwarzenegger, so the story was redone to include a team of commandos.

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l8Ya TIL a WWII pilot with a severely damaged B-17 encountered a German flying ace who didn’t shoot him down and instead offered a salute all because of honor.
bvlN TIL that Ronnie Van Zant of Lynyrd Skynyrd would say to his friends and family that we would never live to be thirty. He was 29 when he was killed in a plane crash while on tour.
8aoeV TIL of xenobots; Synthetic lifeforms designed by AI which are part robot, part organism, the size of a grain of sand and capable of performing tasks such as pushing payloads, cleaning debris, working together in swarms and even reproduce new xenobots
LjJ0 TIL that it wasn’t until the 1930s that production techniques improved to the point where toilet paper could be advertised as “splinter free”.
VVNZ TIL the Aboriginal Mbabaram word for dog is “dog”. This type of coincidence is called a “false cognate” and there are many occurrences throughout the world.