TIL that Sea Otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift away from each other during strong currents.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbeTU2cIDtc
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TIL Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android” is one of Christopher Nolan’s favorite songs. The filmmaker wanted to use it over the closing credits of his 2000 film “Memento,” but couldn’t secure the rights.

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/christopher-nolan-reveals-his-favourite-radiohead-song/
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TIL On October 21st 1966, a colliery spoil tip on a mountain slope suddenly slid downhill as a slurry due to heavy rain, causing an estimated 140,000 cubic yards of spoil to slide down towards Aberfan. It engulfed the Pantglas Junior School, killing 144 people including 116 children

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster
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TIL, Wolfgang Peterson developed Troy for WB but left when offered Batman vs Superman (Not that One). When the film was cancelled he returned to direct Troy replacing Christopher Nolan who WB offered Batman Begins instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_(film)#Production
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TIL of the Three grand soups. The three types of soup the japanese consider the best in the world. However there are actually four soups in the list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_grand_soups
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TIL Seagram, once the largest owner of alcoholic beverage brands in the world, acquired Universal Pictures in 1995 to become media giant. It sold off its media assets in 2000, and rest of the company was dismantled and acquired by rivals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagram
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TIL that the word Internet is not an American word but a word that was first used in Argentina in the 1950s for a Lingerie company.

https://www.infobae.com/historias/2023/11/21/el-curioso-antepasado-argentino-de-internet-historia-de-la-marca-que-se-promocionaba-en-las-revistas-de-la-decada-del-cincuenta/?outputType=amp-type
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TIL that Gustave Eiffel was of German descent. He was born Alexandre Gustave Bonickhausen dit Eiffel. Eiffel got the name from the Eifel mountains in the area where his paternal family was from. He changed his name because of anti-German sentiments at the time.

https://www.toureiffel.paris/en/the-monument/gustave-eiffel
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TIL that Lord Byron according to those that observed his eating habits, ate things drenched in vinegar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron
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TIL of the Grāpple, a discontinued brand of apples soaked in concentrated grape flavouring (methyl anthralinate) to artificially make the flesh taste like grapes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C4%81pple
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TIL that blue jay feathers contain no blue pigment. Their color comes from microscopic structures that scatter blue light. Crushing the feather destroys those structures, causing the blue appearance to disappear.

https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/how-birds-make-colorful-feathers/
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TIL An active volcano is defined as a volcano that is currently erupting or has erupted in approximately the last 11,700 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_volcano
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