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TIL Val Kilmer’s reloading of his rifle in the shootout scene in the 1995 film Heat was so realistic that the footage is used in actual U.S. military training clips.

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Q5YM TIL that the term Gerrymandering comes from a literal Gerrymanderer - Elbridge Gerry, who drew the voting districts of Essex County, MA in such a way that a local paper compared it to a salamander, dubbing it the ‘Gerry-mander"
yQBa8 TIL Buckminster Fuller was a renaissance man -- expert in architecture, design, engineering, science, cartography and education. Self-described 'comprehensive anticipatory design scientist ' generating ideas and artifacts that cross boundaries and defy normality
0wZ6j TIL of a Brazilian cannibal couple that killed two women and sold their flesh stuffed in meat pies for unsuspecting people in the city
bQj TIL that four fans on low speed will produce more cooling than one set on high and still use a lot less energy.
Brn9y TIL: During the first world war, so many starving wolves had assembled that the opposing Russian and German forces formed a temporary alliance in order to fight them off!