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TIL: Red-light cameras increase accidents at intersections by 28%

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gMY54 TIL that during the filming of The Return of the Jedi, Jabba the Hutt was performed by as many as 7 crew members simultaneously, and was one of the more expensive practical effects in the original Star Wars Trilogy.
b6k5E TIL in 2019, NASA had investigated a claim that one of its astronauts illegally accessed the bank account of her estranged spouse while on board the International Space Station, in what is considered the first crime ever committed in space.
8gMa TIL the word “mesmerize” comes from 18th century German physician Franz Mesmer, who used the sounds from Benjamin Franklin’s glass armonica to induce “animal magnetism” in patients. “Animal magnetism” would later be renamed “hypnosis” by Scottish surgeon James Braid in 1841.
ADDld TIL Laika, the first living being launched to space exactly 60 years ago, had a painful death. Until 2002 russian authorities sustained she survived for several days and died painlessly, assuring it was possible to live in space.
Wk6O8 TIL researchers have discovered multiple hidden "civilizations" of octupuses referred to as Octlantis