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TIL John Krasinski fought for a deaf actress Millicent Simmonds to be cast in 'A Quiet Place'; she taught everyone sign language on set.

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b9JWj TIL A needlegun is a firearm that fires small, sometimes fin-stabilized, metal darts or flechettes. Theoretically, the advantages of a needlegun over conventional projectile firearms are in its compact size, high rate of fire, and extreme muzzle velocity.
NrEb TIL that the crown princess of the Netherlands goes to a public school.
e0bl6 TIL the Microsoft Flight Simulator series predates Microsoft Windows by 3 years, making it one of the longest running PC games series of all time.
JYLKv TIL that, in Huangluo, the average hair length of the 120 women is 1,7 meters : they only cut their hair once in their life (at age 16) and the remains are attached to their current growing strands, along with their daily fallings strings of hair.
7r40L TIL that a short stretch of highway in Arizona counts off exit numbers, road signs and markers in kilometers due to a push in the 80's to convert the country's measurement system to metric.