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TIL that the velociraptor sounds in Jurassic Park are actually the sounds of mating tortoises recorded at Marine World

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9MgG TIL in 1969, the U.S. under Nixon went into nuclear readiness alert and flew nuclear armed fighter jets along Soviet airspace for three days. This was part of Nixon’s Madman Theory, in which he tried to give off the image that he was unstable to make sure the Soviets would never provoke the U.S.
D0oV TIL That while filming Gummo some of the actors rebelled against the disgusting locations in which Harmony Korine wanted to shoot. Korine was forced to buy Hazmat suits for some of the cast, while he and his Cinematographer wore Speedos and flip-flops to piss them off.
LQ6wV TIL Keyboard instrument already exist since the third century BC. The earliest known keyboard instrument was the Ancient Greek hydraulis, a type of pipe organ invented by Ctesibius of Alexandria.
e0vbb TIL that the magnetosphere of Jupiter, extends up to seven million kilometers in the Sun's direction and almost to the orbit of Saturn in the opposite direction. If it was visible from Earth, in the night sky, it would be roughly 4 to 5 times bigger than our moon
LgYr TIL Toy Story 2 was accidentally deleted