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TIL a safety alert error resulted in Hawai residents spending 18 minutes bracing for an incoming ballistic strike

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QJ8AE TIL that when Cadillac engineers disassembled a 1990 Lexus LS 400 for engineering analysis, they concluded that the vehicle simply could not be built using existing General Motors production methods.
oB8WA TIL the largest employer of musicians in the world is the US Army
wLe5E TIL that Aladdin animator Randy Cartwright described working on the Magic Carpet as challenging, since it is only a rectangular shape, that expresses itself through pantomime. Cartwright kept folding a piece of cloth while animating to see how to position the Carpet.
0v9R TIL a movie was created in the 80’s with a murder scene so realistic the director was jailed until the actors could be located.
NbOP TIL During the Invasion of Normandy, Scottish Bagpiper, Bill Millin, contrary to British Command, in the thick of battle, marched up & down the beach playing his Pipes. When his unit captured German snipers, they asked why Millin wasn’t shot. They said they didn’t shoot because he was clearly mad.