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TIL the Hard Rock Cafe chain is owned by the Seminole Indian Tribe of Florida

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kO4o7 TIL Steven Spielberg resented his father for divorcing his mom which influenced his early works of ET and Close Encounters. But later Steven found out his mom cheated on his dad and so he made father/son reconciliation a theme in Catch Me If You Can and Lincoln.
m1Y6O TIL Jet turbine blades are made in such a way that the entire blade is a single metallic crystal, oriented so its strongest at the leading edge.
Lw6m TIL in 2009 Nine women were rescued from what they thought was a Big Brother reality show house but turned out to be a criminal organization
lOEG TIL a gamer once complained on the Runic Games forums that a specific camera effect made a game unplayable for her due to a rare eye condition. Mere hours later, and early on a Sunday morning, the developers released a patch that added a user toggle for the effect
16wPV TIL that the first woman to fly combat missions was Marie Marvingt, who in 1915 bombed a military base in Germany. In her lifetime, she held four different pilot licenses, unofficially cycled the Tour de France, and was awarded a gold medal "for all sports" by the French Academy of Sports.