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TIL Brad Fiedel's soundtrack for "The Terminator" was recorded entirely as a live performance. In the only help from an Oberheim synthesizer, he had to play while changing tempo and get them to match. This was happening while scenes were being added in post-production, according to Gale Anne Hurd.

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6E9BY TIL White Tailed Sea Eagles went extinct in Scotland in 1916 due to hunting and egg collecting. In 1975 a breeding pair from Norway were re-introduced and in 2006 the 200th Sea Eagle egg hatched on the Isle of Skye.
69gX TIL that Teller of ‘Penn & Teller’ has no first name, on official documents such as his driver’s license his given name is listed as NFN, meaning “no first name”
E1wEx TIL ultrasonic blades use sound waves to cleanly and precisely cut difficult-to-process food, like cheese. In particular, the technique stops matter from sticking to the blade, reducing cleaning time.
5YNek TIL that the Hapsburg's are (1) still around and (2) were one of Hitler's biggest internal enemies (in the German speaking world) in WW2
0KK1 TIL that the USSR renamed its rocket base Baikonur in 1961 to keep the Soviet space program a secret. Residents of the original Baikonur, hundreds of km away, took advantage of the resulting confusion by ordering many valuable supplies for themselves before the scam was discovered.