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TIL that water is harvested from dense fog with nets

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Yp1r7 TIL that Harvey Weinsten wanted to cut a fish scene from the film Snowpiercer. Director Bong Joon Ho told Weinstein that the scene had personal importance, because his father was a fisherman. This was a lie. The scene stayed in.
16bpW TIL of the courtesy flag - a small national maritime flag of the host country, flown by ships when entering a nation's territorial waters for the first time.
4k4aa TIL Thomas Jefferson was the first president to look through an astronomical telescope at the White House. Jefferson owned telescopes and made careful notes for an annular eclipse observed from his home, Monticello
4YEJ TIL Agreeableness is the best personality indicator for sustaining a loving relationship
dDmKK TIL that in the first English release of the Game Boy Advance game Tales of Phantasia, the translators accidentally referred to the end of the world as "Kangaroo" instead of "Ragnarok"