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TIL I learned of an autorotation, a maneuver to stop a falling helicopter during engine failure

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D10XD TIL that Mia Farrow's husband, famous singer Frank Sinatra, was furious when she landed the lead role in Rosemary's Baby. Previously, Sinatra had demanded she forgo her career when they wed, and he served her divorce papers via a corporate lawyer in front of the cast and crew midway through filming.
p8rQQ TIL anyone can help fight sex trafficking by uploading photos of your hotel room. These photos will be used to determine where perpetrators of sex trafficking are committing their crimes.
vPwV7 TIL at her 80th birthday, Queen Elizabeth II quoted Groucho Marx: "Anyone can get old - all you have to do is to live long enough".
657Y TIL when Stephen Hawking gave a lecture in Japan he was asked not to mention the possible re-collapse of the universe, billions of years into the future, for fears of the effects on the stock exchange
v1PKj TIL bestiality is legal in Japan. Are they that scared of adjudicating the "it was the squid's fault" defense?