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TIL Scientists Just Confirmed the Presence of Unknown Physics in Our Universe…Think About That

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4X7DR TIL the Jurassic Park film crew were stranded after a hurricane. The pilot that flew them to safety was the same pilot who played Jock, the guy that flew Indiana Jones to safety in the opening scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark over 11 years earlier
n787 TIL Christopher Walken doesn’t like to watch his early movies because he thinks he was too “pretty”.
X7ED TIL that the Dead Marshes in the Lord of the Rings were most likely inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s involvement in WW1. Bomb craters would fill up with rain and dead soldiers from both sides could be seen floating inside the craters.
4kRYR TIL Tracy Chapman was able to debut her song "Fast Car" to over 600 million people due to Stevie Wonder losing an important hard drive needed to do his own performance,
a8vkN TIL that, on 16 November, 1949, students in Ghent (Belgium) stormed the medieval castle, lowered the portcullis and threw fruit from the walls at the police to protest a new tax on beer. The event is still commemorated yearly by the city as the greatest student prank in its history.