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TIL space junk destroys around one satellite each year

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MeXW7 TIL Doom in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" was going to be the hunter who killed Bambi's mother but Disney objected
WkyEA TIL That the T. Rex could easily be outrun by a human given their maximum speed is only around 12 mph
b6B6Z TIL that, despite being taught to learn from failure/mistakes, humans tend to block the memories of failure and make the same mistakes again.
D1jQv TIL Saving Private Ryan (1998) was inspired by the story of the Niland brothers. Ryan was based on "Fritz" who served in the 101st Airborne Division and was close friends with Warren Muck and Donald Malarkey from E Company, 506th, later featured in Hanks and Spielberg's Band of Brothers (2001)
gV9 TIL that the Malaysian “Assassin Bug” not only kills and eats its victims, but also wears its victims corpses on its body as part of its suit of armor.