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TIL Rob Bottin, the special effects artist for The Thing (1982) was only 22 when he started his work on the film.

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7rnK7 TIL Waffle House has its own record label called "Waffle Records." They've produced about 40 songs including "There Are Raisins in my Toast." They hold 1% of all plays at Waffle House jukeboxes.
R78ll TIL that there are Dinosaur fossils in Antarctica.
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QWK9 TIL in WWII a woman-only Soviet bomber regiment were nicknamed the “Night Witches” by German soldiers. For a successful bombing run, the Witches would cut the engine of their archaic and noisy aircraft. Gliding in, they would release their bombs before the enemy even knew they were there.