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TIL Five Men Agreed To Stand Directly Under An Exploding Nuclear Bomb

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PYRYL TIL when sonar was first invented, operators were puzzled by the appearance of a ‘false seafloor’ that changed depth with the time of day and amount of moonlight. It was eventually identified as a previously unknown layer of billions of lanternfish that reflect sonar waves and migrate up and down.
lDMr TIL a Dutch city known as Utrecht celebrated George Orwell’s 110 birthday by putting party hats on surveillance cameras.
WklNL TIL that Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan and The Wrestler were originally supposed to be one movie about an affair between an obsessed ballet dancer and a burnt out wrestler. He eventually realized it was way too much story and split them, doing The Wrestler about 10 years later
grARb TIL 2006 film Cars earned $462 million on box office, relatively modest result for Pixar films. However it earned $8 billion on merchandising in just 5 years.
KZVR TIL that Cerberus, the three-headed guard dog of Hades in Greek mythology, takes his name from the Greek word “kerberos”. Kerberos means “spotted”, which means Hades literally named his dog “Spot”.