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TIL that today is Kamehameha Day, to celebrate the first king of Hawaii

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ep7N5 TIL, for a scene in his movie Tenet, where a Boeing 747 plane crashes into (a fictional) Oslo Airport, they crashed an ACTUAL, REAL 747, because Christopher Nolan determined it would actually be cheaper than models or CGI.
VMlKp TIL The United States has been in a state of national emergency ever since September 14, 2001
JYemv TIL that in the 1950's the US airforce tried to design a cockpit to fit the average pilot's body. After measuring 4000 pilots they discovered that none of them came close to having an average body. This lead to introduction of adjustable seats.
aRw9 Til I learned that theres a group in germany called Prevention Project Dunkelfeld that gives clinical and support services to Peadophiles that haven’t offended and want to control their sexual urges.
dDyY7 TIL in the years 1950-1951, the A. C. Gilbert Company distributed the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab, a toy kit allowing kids to make nuclear reactions at home using actual radioactive material.