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TIL the beat of the Mission: Impossible theme song spells the letters M.I. in Morse Code: dash dash-dot dot)

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OoMN4 TIL Hubert Latham was the first to attempt to fly a plane over the English Channel in 1909; he failed, but in doing so he became the first person to ever land a plane on water.
wLXDo TIL Heroin was synthesized in 1897 at Bayer pharmaceutical by German chemists looking for a less potent form of morphine. Bayer marketed heroin as a "non-addictive morphine substitute" for cough suppressants.
QJL96 TIL the dinosaurs are only on screen for 15 minutes in the original Jurassic Park film.
eXZJ TIL when filming Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Barbra Streisand showed up in a dominatrix suite and whipped Harrison Ford for various reasons. Carrie Fisher came to his rescue shortly after.
wG4W TIL There are thought to be 100,000 uncharted mountains under the sea.