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TIL "Flaws" was the nickname given to the sharks used in Jaws (due to their constant malfunction). As a result, Spielberg relied on the famous "D/E flat" notes to suggest the presence of Jaws, rather than actually showing him (more often)

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nAd7 TIL of Missing White Woman Syndrome - the phenomenon of the media’s extensive cover on missing upper middle class white women who disappear compared to missing men, women of color or lower class
WkygX TIL about Peter Lang a 76 year old man who single-handedly fought a fire for 10 hours to save his safari animals.
RD98 TIL When threatened, the hairy frog, or “horror frog,” intentionally breaks its own bones to produce claws that puncture through the frog’s toe pads to become defensive weapons.
0XkM TIL that Mafia capo Gregory Scarpa was recruited by the FBI to find information on the murders of 3 civil rights activists by the KKK using extrajudicial methods. He attained the location of the bodies by pistol whipping a Klansman and putting a gun in his mouth.
7oEZ TIL that future King Henry V was struck in the face by an arrow in his first battle leading soldiers. Rather than leave the field, he reportedly stated that “he would rather die than stain his soldierly reputation by flight.” He was sixteen at the time.