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TIL that "Airplane" was judged "culturally, historically, or aesthetically" significant and added to the National Film Registry in 2010

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AD4wB TIL that Britain during the Palaeolithic period was intermittently populated due to glaciation driving the humans out multiple times.
v1oZD TIL British Tanks are all built with a kettle inside, to make tea anytime, anywhere
bDl9 TIL that the inventor of medical anesthasia became addicted to inhaling chloroform and slowly became deranged, eventually throwing acid on prostitutes clothes and later killing himself with his shaving kit.
J9nj TIL A thin layer of ice crystals, at right conditions, collectively act as a single giant mirror in the sky and reflects the light from the earth below
8aMMb TIL that the author of the original Bambi story wrote a fictional pornographic autobiography of a child prostitute in Vienna that was so period accurate that literature scholars debated for decades as to whether it was a true story for decades.