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TIL That The Male Lead Singer For The Heavy Metal Band King Kobra Became A Woman

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VMyxD TIL: a real water buffalo is seen being slaughtered at the end of Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now.” The animal had already been marked for sacrifice by the indigenous tribe whose land they were using to film, so Coppola decided to capture the actual ritual for the movie.
7nZr TIL that spiders tune each strand of their web to a specific frequency by making some strans tighter than others so that when something is caught in it, the spider can easily pinpoint where it is. This is also used for determining whether what cause the sound is a food or a potential mate.
WXk4 TIL There’s a guy who people hire to steal back boats that got shipjacked by pirates and corrupt governments. His name? MAX HARDBERGER.
Oo4k1 TIL that of the 20 most watched television broadcasts, 19 are Super Bowls. The lone TV series episode, at #9, is the series finale of MAS*H in 1983.
JJ4Q TIL that there is a 2,600-foot covered escalator in Hong Kong to help people commute up and down the large hills in the city.