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TIL only one of M. Night Shyamalan’s movies has lost money (Wide Awake in 1998)

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0da8R TIL that scientists accidentally killed the world’s oldest animal while trying to learn its age. Everybody makes mistakes. When scientists found an ancient ocean quahog, they decided to examine it from the inside to determine its true age.
J5KQ TIL In 1964, Gary Flandromwas tasked with studying techniques for exploring the outer planets. He discovered that a rare alignment of the outer planets would occur in the late 70’s and came up with the Planetary Grand Tour which allowed for the Voyager program to happen.
epEx5 TIL that Jamie Hyneman was an early competitor in Robot Wars (where people design robots that fight each other), but his robot Blendo was deemed too dangerous for competition
E15Vp TIL that there are at least 7 kinds of popcorn. 4yellow, 1red, 1blue, 1purple. Mostly all shades of white. But only 1 is a different shape!
54Np TIL pigs are actually smarter than dogs and possibly even more intelligent than dolphins.