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TIL the sign language equivalent of a tongue-twister is known as a finger-fumbler.

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9AdB TIL The voice actor of SpongeBob is married to the voice actor of Plankton’s computer wife (Karen) in real life.
8ZVP TIL when the US Navy refused to cooperate during the filming of the movie Crimson Tide, filmmakers waited outside Pearl Harbor for a submarine to head to sea and chased it with a boat and helicopter to get the shot of it submerging.
WPK9 TIL in the 13th century, Genghis Khan proposed “friendship and peace” with the fellow nomadic Khwarezmian Empire in Persia. The Khwarezmia shah ordered a Mongol trade delegation killed, prompting Khan to invade the empire, kill 1.25 million, and destroy the Khwarezmian Empire.
WkOBY TIL that during their migration, a hummingbird's heart beats up to 1,260 times a minute, and its wings flap 15 to 80 times a second.
8axWG TIL Dark Crystal: The Age of Resistance design supervisor Toby Froud was the baby in the Jim Henson movie, Labyrinth!