TIL that scientists reintroduced the Whooping Crane to an extinct migration route by guiding them through the air with an ultralight airplane they imprinted on. The pilot had to wear a crane costume t
TIL that for Terminator 2, stunt pilot Chuck Tamburro flew a real helicopter under an overpass at 60 knots with about 5 ft of clearance above and 4 ft on each side; when camera operators refused to fi
TIL that Lennox Lewis, Gene Tunney, Rocky Marciano and Vitali Klitschko are the four heavyweight boxing champions to have retired as champion. Of these four Lewis and Marciano are the two to hold a wi
the globular springtail moves so quick that it looks like it teleports but it's actually doing backflips at roughly 368 flips per second! And the reason why it looks like it teleports is because the f
TIL the oldest known share certificate in the world, dated 1288, gave the Bishop of Västerås a 1/8th stake in a Swedish copper mine — whose successor company, Stora Enso, is still listed on the stock
TIL an elderly man in Italy lived for a year with an exposed brain due to scalp cancer that ate through his skull. He had no neurological symptoms except numbness, and his only treatments were wound c
TIL that Phryne, a wealthy 4th-century BC Greek courtesan, was tried for impiety in Athens. According to later accounts, she revealed her body before the jury, while her lawyer Hypereides argued that
TIL Nazi Germany forced occupied Greece to accept an interest-free loan in 1942. Germany began repaying it in April 1943, but repayments ceased after the war, leaving 476 million Reichsmarks unpaid. G
TIL that Joe Weider got Arnold Schwarzenegger his first movie role by passing him off as a German Shakespearean actor, even though Arnold barely spoke English.
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