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TIL IMAX projectionists have to wear protective body armor while handling or changing the projectors lamp

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788pp TIL that Ocean City, NJ employs a falconer to keep seagulls off the boardwalk.
bL19 TIL There’s a science fiction story, written 2nd century AD (before the Bible) in Roman Syria, that features flying to the moon, contact with aliens, interplanetary war, and the discovery of a continent across the ocean. The name literally translates to “True Stories” or “True History”.
xVogk TIL That Anita Hemmings was the first African-American female to graduate from Vassar College. She did this by pretending to be spanish, however she was discovered the day before graduation. She still received her diploma.
aPJL TIL in the US nonfatal firearm crimes dropped from 1.5 million in 1993 to 467,300 in 2011
7vMX TIL ‘Vexations’ an 18hr long piece of music. After a public performance in New York in 1963 only 6 people remained to the end, one stood up and shouted “Encore!”