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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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v4o4 TIL that Robert Zemeckis was so frustrated with the cliffhanger ending of The Empire Strikes Back that he purposely put the trailer & release date for Back to the Future 3 at the end of Back to the Future 2 so that the audience would know that the story would be completed in six months.
N76e8 TIL Part of the Jewish holiday of Purim is poking fun at the more far-fetched methods of Talmudic Biblical exgesis by using them to reach absurd conclusions
JYX9j TIL about zip bombs, large files that get compressed down to kilobytes, in order to render a system useless while unpacking them. A well known example is 42.zip, which uses some of the common methods to create a zip bomb, like repetition and nested .zip files.
Pdbn TIL historians found European queens have been associated with a 27% increase in wars compared to European kings.
MeDpb TIL about Francis Pegahmagabow, a canadian indigenous man who fought in WWI. He killed 378 enemies with his Ross rifle and captured another 300, which makes him one of the most successful marksmen in the conflict.