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TIL there are only six full-time 'skywriters' left in the world. Skywriters are those who use aircraft to expel special smoke during flight in patterns.

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4LGo TIL when reviewing the 1948 movie “Isn’t it Romantic,” reviewer Leonard Maltin simply replied “No” which is the shortest review ever given to a motion picture
loWyG TIL Leonardo Da Vinci was an illegitimate child
XEPo6 TIL of french writer Gabriel Matzneff. In spite of having described his pedophile activities and sexual tourism in several of his books, he remained sheltered from any criminal prosecution throughout his literary career and benefited from wide support within the French literary and political world.
no1o TIL that the ripples in icicles are formed because of salt in the water. An icicle formed from pure water would be smooth.
rRYYo TIL Countdown, the iconic UK gameshow which has run for 35 years to date, went no further than a pilot in the US, apparently because producers thought its premise was too "brainy" to appeal to the general American public.