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TIL aircraft manufacturers use specialized cannons to fire whole dead chickens at planes in order to simulate bird strikes

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d8vJr TIL there exists 2 pornographic movies from 1993 based on the Super Mario video game series called „Super Hornio Brothers” that Nintendo bought rights to, in order to halt their distribution.
wX6P TIL that it rained nearly continually in California from Christmas Eve 1861 through the end of January 1862, destroying nearly ¼ of the property in the state, turning the Central Valley into an inland sea, and bankrupting the state
xryk TIL that wolves in the wild do not have “alpha males” or “alpha females” with subordinate “betas” or “gammas”. Wolf packs are a family with the offspring of previous years.
GAQL5 TIL: Non volatile memory onboard the Apollo spacecraft were made by manually weaving copper wires between magnetic cores, bit by bit. Software had to be perfect because any revisions to code were impossible
OogLL TIL that the filling inside a Ferraro Rocher is in fact, Nutella. Both are made by the same company.