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TIL Christopher Nolan refused to use green screens for Interstellar, instead opting to build an actual set for the black hole scene and suspend Matthew McConaughey on wires

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ne7Ab TIL the Sand Octopus lacks color changing organs (chromatophores) so They shoot jets of water to create quick sand and then blast almost a foot into the ground... then they secrete a mucus to reinforce the walls of their predator proof bunker and use one arm to create a ventilation “chimney”
a8PVN TIL on the 13th of July 1985 there two Live Aid concerts. One at Wembley Stadium in London and one at John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia. Phil Collins performed in both (helicopters from/to stadiums and Concorde for crossing the ocean).
4g5b TIL - there is an empty point in space where the gravity from the earth and the Sun is equal, and objects can orbit it as if there was something there.
oRl6r TIL that the Vincent Price's spoken word portion of "Thriller" was written the day of recording
n5P TIL There’s an ant with a sting as painful as a gunshot wound.