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TIL Elijah Wood crossed South Africa’s Victoria Falls on ropes, and was the first person to do so

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ADR94 TIL Turkology is a complex of humanities sciences studying languages, history, literature, folklore, culture, and ethnology of people speaking Turkic languages and Turkic peoples. This includes ethnic groups from the Sakha in East Siberia to the Balkan Turks and Gagauz in Moldova.
X0ow8 TIL round storm clouds that look like cotton balls or puffy batter being deep-fried are called mammatus clouds
DZvv TIL the man who runs Khan Academy has three degrees from MIT as well as an MBA from Harvard
p8J8Z TIL it is theoretically possible to send a paper plane from the ISS to earth, without the planes burning up on reentry. An experiment was scheduled, but unfortunately cancelled.
dX1Q TIL Quentin Tarantino had considered making “The Vega Brothers”. The film would have starred Michael Madsen and John Travolta reprising their roles of Vic (Mr. Blonde) from Reservoir Dogs and Vincent from Pulp Fiction.