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TIL that airplane emergency exit doors are impossible to open mid flight, because due to pressure, it would take 24,000 pounds of force to open the door.

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GYGp5 TIL of the microraptor gui, a four-winged feathered dinosaur that seemed to specialize in hunting birds.
QJBGp TIL an animation studio in South Korea produced many famous American animated shows, including the first two seasons of The Simpsons exclusively, as well as parts of X-Men, Arthur, Animaniacs, Batman, and The Land Before Time
aKXL TIL that in the German version of Die Hard, the villain Hans Gruber is rewritten to be Irish, not German, and renamed Jack Gruber
j6JEa TIL: Tracy Chapman sued Nicki Minaj for copyright infringement. According to the complaint, Chapman repeatedly refused to give Minaj permission to sample one of her songs, but Minaj did it anyway. Minaj settled and agreed to pay Chapman $450K.
8JpZ TIL in 1561 the citizens of Nuremberg witnessed an aerial battle of UFOs that lasted for over an hour, with strangely shaped objects fighting each other until one side was the victor. There was even a crash landing, whos wreckage was taken away in the end by a vessel