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TIL that the sounds of the TIE fighters in star wars were a combo of an elephant call and a car driving on wet pavement

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jNvgE TIL about "The Lion House" in Gorongosa, Mozambique. When humans abandoned this safari lodge, the lions took over. Gorongosa became a national park in 1960.
XEVED TIL that the main character (Milo Thatch) in the Disney animated film Atlantis: The Lost Empire was modeled on a man named Marc Okrand, who created the Atlantean language for the movie and is also the creator of the Klingon language from Star Trek.
rRJxd TIL in Quartz watches, the second hand is rarely aligned perfectly. This is an unintentional indicator that the watch is handmade, because mass machine assembly is required to completely ensure that the second hands align.
LWN0 TIL Dennis Leary’s hit song “Asshole” was inspired from a set done by a 19 year old comedian, that comedian was Louis CK (Pod Cast 9:15)
oByb7 TIL that ever since the first atomic bomb tests, the air is contaminated with enough radioactive particles to make modern steel useless in highly sensitive radiological instruments. Today, only steel made before these tests, such as from sunken warships, can be used to make such devices.