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TIL there exists HD footage of New York City from 1993

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jNaGp TIL that the sounds we hear in nature documentaries,including popular ones like Planet Earth II,are almost always created by Foley artists in studios with commonplace objects.Eg.Magnetic film tape are used to create the sound of a spider walking and a slinky to make the web shooting sounds.
QNXKE TIL that in his youth, Napoleon was actually an outspoken Corsican nationalist, and advocated for Corsica's independence from France.
awLwN TIL about Snorri Thorfinnsson, the first European to be born in North America. He was born near modern-day New England around the year 1000.
QJvDE TIL The Smother Brother's Comedy Hour featured The Who in 1967. The performance ended with The Who destroying their instruments, aided by pyrotechnics. Keith Moon accidentally received 3x the normal explosives. The explosion sent cymbal shrapnel cut into Moon's arm and singed Townshend's hair.
ep645 TIL that the planet Saturn is the only planet in our solar system with an average density that is lower than water. It could theoretically float in a pool (if there was a pool big enough to support it 🙃)