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TIL Spielberg wrote a sequel to E.T. in which Elliot receives a radio signal that leads him to believe E.T. is back. Unbeknownst to him the signal comes from an evil alien race that landed on Earth after picking up E.T.’s “phone home” distress call. He is then kidnapped and tortured.

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R8KQ TIL when a chinchilla is very happy it will jump and twist mid-air, sometimes bouncing off the walls. This is called “popcorning.”
DQPpe TIL Ethan Zuckerman, the man who created pop-up ads, has said sorry to the world for inventing one of the most detested forms of online advertising.
0dg15 TIL: On September 11th 2001, United 175 reported to ATC that they had visual contact with American 11, and United 175 was told to turn and avoid American 11, only minutes before they were also hijacked.
epnAD TIL radiation exposures during the Chernobyl disaster were as high as 16 Sv (sieverts), three times the lethal LD50 dose of 4.8 Sv. A human near a breach of the ITER fusion reactor's containment vessel would be exposed to 2000 Sv every second.
KYVAG TIL although the film is only 1 hour and 37 minutes, the word Michael was said 114 times in the 1987 film the lost boys