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nWxRb TIL Burt Ward did a lot of his own stunts while shooting Batman because his stuntman looked nothing like Ward. Ward went to the hospital all four days in a row shooting the pilot.
y1Pa TIL while developing the 1994 hit game “Donkey Kong Country,” programmers found that real-life gorillas moved too slow for a fast-paced game. Instead, Donkey Kong’s movements were based off a horse’s gallop.
va4x TIL The US army once played a $250 million war game - a lone general defeated the US army in one day. Subsequently the rules were changed to make it impossible for the US to lose.
R5dr1 TiL: In the early days of airmail a pilot, named Dean Smith, was forced to land on a cow causing his plane to wreck. It scared him.
8aNJ4 TIL there was a natural nuclear reactor in present-day Gabon that produced about 100kw of energy 2 billion years ago, running for thousands of years. This is the only known example of naturally occurring nuclear fission.