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TIL Iowa had a professional NBA team in 1950

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xVAd5 TIL a plane landed so softly it broke the landing gear
BgmyK TIL during a scene in The Shawshank Redemption in which a crow was to be fed a maggot, the American Humane Society objected against the idea of a live animal being killed for the scene meaning the team had to find and use a maggot that had died of natural causes.
VgLB TIL: When Spirited Away won the Academy Award for Animation, Hayo Miyazaki personally chose not to attend the show because he “didn’t want to visit a country that was bombing Iraq”
5BKr TIL when a Sharpie is left uncapped and the tip dries it can be salvaged by soaking it in rubbing alcohol
9JyQ TIL there’s a experimental project in Stockholm, Sweden where you can sign up to recieve a SMS if there is a cardiac arrest nearby (500 m), so you can get there before the ambulance and perform CPR. 9500 people have signed up, and they reach the location faster in 54% of the cases.