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TIL That A Chicken Gun is a Cannon designed to fire dead chickens at aircraft to test their resilience against bird strikes

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MGV7 TIL that Toto, the dog in The Wizard of Oz, was paid $125 a week while the Munchkin actors were only paid $50-$100 a week.
MBl8 TIL Dr. Hans Munch, a German physician at Auschwitz, refused to take part in the inmate murders there. He designed his experiments to be elaborate ruses to protect them, since those who were no longer useful were usually killed.
VM5VD TIL Your computer's RAM has to constantly remind itself of the data it's holding due to capacitor leakage. This is the main reason why it's slower for the CPU to use compared to on-die memory circuits.
vPL5j TIL that the voice of Linda from 'Bob's Burgers' is the voice actor's mocking of his mother
dDEyZ TIL - Germany is on a list of countries that the USA monitors for currency manipulation