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TIL the only person besides Harrison Ford to appear in all three original Indiana Jones movies was an Englishman named Pat Roach. He also died twice in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

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KOMwQ TIL East Germans defected by various ways like digging long tunnels under the Berlin Wall, waiting for favorable winds and taking hot air balloons, sliding along aerial wires, flying ultralight aircraft and, in one case, driving a sports car at full speed through the basic, initial fortifications.
KOKg6 TIL that since it was first introduced with the formation of the squad in 1972, the iconic uniform of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders has been modified only six times.
Qvw6 TIL that Clair Patterson, the geochemist who discovered the Earth’s age to be 4.5 billion years old using lead isotopic data from the Canyon Diablo meteorite, also spearheaded the campaigning of the US government to finally ban of the use of lead in gasoline, paint and food packaging.
pYxWb TIL that In 1816, after the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, Earth experienced the “Year Without a Summer.” Global temperatures dropped, leading to food shortages, crop failures, and extreme weather events
m1knM TIL about self-inflaming plants, such as this cistus plant, which ignites itself to outcompete surrounding flora