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TIL during WWII Soviet scientists defended the world’s largest seed vault through a 900-day siege. Many of the scientists starved amid the crops and fruit, refusing to jeopardize ‘the future of Russia’ to save themselves.

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R7DE8 TIL of "The Attack of the Dead Men" where after being hit with a wave of chlorine gas, 100 Russian soldiers coved in blood and half-blind, successfully launched a counter-attack against the advancing 7000 Germans, who fled at the sight of the "dead men walking".
KObNa TIL about the “Rule of Thirds,” which is a technique used in film and photography that divides the frame into a 3x3 grid, and focuses elements of the frame at the intersecting points on the grid, where our eyes find them most pleasing, and makes the image more comfortable to look at.
7r5mp TIL that "No Country For Old Men" had to suspend production because the crew for "There Will Be Blood" was testing pyrotechnics in the same area and created too much smoke.
8akoP TIL that, in March 2001, while on a trip in Kenya, the pilot of an airplane with Rowan Atkinson in it fainted, so Atkinson took control and flew it, until the pilot recovered
ANpno TIL: that Hisayuki Machii, the founder of one of Japan's most notorious Yakuza gangs, was Korean.