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oBd6L TIL Land Mines blow up as soon as they're stepped on, they don't wait for the person to get off as often seen in movies/TV.
GAMpG TIL: Flyting was a medieval contest of insults between two parties often conducted in verse. Insults would involve calling them cowardly or insulting their sexual prowess. Some Kings encourage "court flyting" between poets for entertainment. In some cultures, warriors would flyt before battle.
vJW4 TIL that one-third of humanity (including 60% of Europeans and 80% of North Americans) live in such light polluted areas that the Milky Way is not visible at night.
ndpB TIL: When an F18 is catapulted from its carrier, the pilot doesn’t actually take the controls. The acceleration is so brisk that the pilot would pitch down thinking that the nose was to high and crash into the ocean. They instead just hold handle they call the “towel rail”
d86lE TIL Batman saves Rachel Dawes (Katie Holmes) and a "Little Boy" at the end of Batman Begins. That little boy is Jack Gleeson who later played King Joffrey Baratheon in Game of Thrones.