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TIL Bald Eagles can swim and have a butterfly like stroke

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pOVe TIL James Cameron would use a nail gun to nail the film crew’s cell phones to a wall in retaliation for unwanted ringing during the production of Avatar.
wgG6 TIL the United States has the 4th largest native Spanish-speaking population in the world, and has more native speakers than Spain
O6aL TIL Saturn has a moon called Mimus and it has a crater in it that makes it look look like the Death Star
GWnN TIL Michael J Fox almost wasn’t casted as Alex Keaton on ‘Family Ties’ because NBC executive Brandon Tartikoff thought Fox didn’t have “the kind of face you’ll ever see on a lunch box”. Years later Fox would send Tartikoff a Marty McFly lunch box, which Tartikoff kept in his office.
4n7X TIL that it takes eight computers, four operators, and a computerized 3D model of the field just to make the little yellow first-down line in TV football games.