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TIL that commercial airline pilots help make weather forecasts more accurate

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nerGW TIL "Cheese-eating surrender monkeys" is an insult used to refer to French people. It first appeared in the Simpsons (1995) when Willy says "Bonjoooouuurrr, ya cheese-eatin' surrender monkeys" to a French class. The term has since entered two Oxford Quotation Dictionaries.
AaGg TIL before the 1986 All-Star Three point shootout, Larry Bird walked in to the locker room where all the other contestants were getting ready and asked “Which one of you motherfuckers is coming in second?”
rRWkW TIL that EA Poe's revenge story "The Cask of Amontillado" was part of a literary feud. Poe's rival Thomas Dunn English wrote a novel, "1844," featuring a drunken wife-abuser based on Poe; Poe, in turn, used details from that novel as the setting for his own murder fantasy about English.
lgJN TIL that because left-handed people have an advantage in hand-to-hand combat, the rate of left-handed people is much higher in violent societies than peaceful societies
R5NQ7 TIL A Catwoman spin-off franchise starring Michelle Pfeiffer was planned after Batman Returns (1992). The project took too long to develop and was eventually scrapped until the early 2000's when the project was revived with Halle Berry.