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TIL traditional Japanese woodworking didn't use nails or glue, instead they used interlocking joints to connect the wood

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x66Ob TIL that Daniel Craig had to overcome his fear of heights to shoot the construction site scene in Casino Royale, which required him to climb a 200 foot (60 metre) crane.
4Qnw TIL a Utah High School allowed students to use a real gun, loaded with blank rounds, in a High School production of Oklahoma! Student shot himself in head with it, not knowing that a blank can still kill at close range, and died.
b0R9 TIL….British accents noticeable change within the UK every 25 miles
Y7J7v TIL: The sentinelese, an uncontacted hunter gatherer tribe living in a remote Indian island in the Bay of Bengal
awR0y TIL of Major Emmett Tulia, an F16 fighter pilot who successfully dodged SIX SAMs over Iraq in 1991. The video of this encounter is used in training today.