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TIL that there are breeds of domesticated pigeons that are specifically selected for their ability to tumble or roll in the air

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v1a17 TIL when Stanley Kubrick made "The Killing", a 1956 noir heist film, the studio demanded he add in a narrator to explain the nonlinear order of events so the audience wouldn't get confused. Kubrick eventually added the narration which gave the audience inaccurate times to confuse them further.
nW0Rb TIL of Alice Denham, the only author to hold the distinction of both writing, and posing for Playboy. She did so for her book “The Deal”, both of which was published in 1956
x4Xw TIL that in 1976 a Japanese ultranationalist porn actor died after flying a plane into the house of a yakuza don to punish him for accepting millions of dollars in bribes from Lockheed & betraying the samurai code
LkV4P Today I learned that manual shift is still the majority in the rest of the world, except in the US, while automatic is close to 96%.
OoLk1 TIL Police Woman, a 1974-1978 NBC TV show starring Angie Dickinson about a female cop caused an avalanche of applications for employment from women to police departments around the United States & was President Ford's favorite show, cancelling a press conference in order to avoid delaying an episode