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TIL that Summer was considered a bad time to release a movie in the theater because of low sales until Steven Spielberg’s JAWS.

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0d4pp TIL the University of Western Ontario has a wind tunnel big enough to hold a two-story house. The Insurance Research Lab for Better Homes is used to test the effects of hurricane-strength wind and windborne debris on structures. Weather aficionados call it the "Three Little Pigs Project."
8agNK TIL: Consuming Matcha (as well as other chlorophyll rich foods like spinach and kale), can make your stool green.
kOAkm TIL in Taiwan, a 96-year-old saved his village from demolition by painting every surface of it with colourful imagery, which brought in so many tourists that the mayor ordered that the village be preserved.
N8Bb TIL at the Edinburgh Zoo there is a voluntary daily penguin parade, which sometimes gets cancelled if the penguins do not wish to go out that day.
vPV84 TIL of the ABCD system of aircraft maintenance. A and B checks are routine checks, while C is more intensive. D checks happen every 6-10 years and require the entire plane to be disassembled and the paint stripped.