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TIL winds of up 8,700 km/h (5,400 mph) have been measured on the exoplanet HD 189733

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e0RX6 TIL that all gift cards in Australia are now valid for 3 years from 'activation' or purchase, regardless of when they were bought and regardless of what it says on the card.
oOBW TIL Walt Disney had his mustache accidentally lit on fire by the animator Ken Anderson. Ken was worried that he’d be fired, and it was showing in his work, so Walt shaved his mustache and spent the week eating lunch with Ken so he wouldn’t feel so alienated.
eV6g TIL the Yugoslav army used microwave ovens to fool the NATO. Missiles would home in on any strong source of radio emission in the 400-10000 MHz range, exactly the range of household microwave ovens. In the next days, NATO pilots bombed microwave ovens placed in empty fields instead of Serbian tanks
awAkJ Today I learned crocodiles play by carrying flowers in their mouths and giving their smaller companions rides on their backs.
yQwel TIL that for the 10th anniversary edition of the film 'Titanic', James Cameron edited the starry night sky to be exactly as it would have been on April 15th, 1912 at 4:20am. This was after astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson repeatedly emailed, chiding him for getting the sky wrong in the original