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TIL there that some Native Americans have celebrated “Unthanksgiving Day” for the last 37 years

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vAv8 TIL During the filming of the climactic flood scene in Noah’s Ark (1928), the great volume of water used was so overwhelming (600,000 gallons) that three extras drowned, one was so badly injured that his leg needed to be amputated, and a number suffered broken limbs and other serious injuries
JYpJ8 TIL that "Solar Sails" were first proposed by Kepler in 1608 “Provide ships or sails adapted to the heavenly breezes, and there will be some who will brave even that void.” Carl Sagan inspired Bill Nye to pursue Solar Sails in the 1980s, and the crowdfunded LightSail 2 is now in orbit around Earth.
RlG8 TIL there was a German Shephard called Gabi that operated as a guard dog at the Belgrade Zoo and managed to defeat an escaped jaguar
XxJ8 TIL that a Dove is just a white Pigeon.
rNaex TIL Astrophysicist Jonathan Lane was the first to demonstrate with math that the Sun is a body of gas, in his 1870 book "On the Theoretical Temperature of the Sun". Lane’s law states that as a gaseous body contracts, the contraction generates heat