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TIL Leonardo DiCaprio was originally first choice to play Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds

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kOWxW TIL about the mobile offshore base (MOB) a proposed idea for a super-massive naval ship for performing military operations where regular land bases are not present.
rRLby TIL of the 1626 Wanggongchang explosion. A massive unexplained explosion in Beijing, killing 20,000 and estimated to be similar in power to that of the Hiroshima Bombing
GZB7 TIL there is a nail polish that detects date rape drugs.
wowe8 TIL the film All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) was banned from Poland because censors felt it was "pro-German". Ironically enough it was also banned in Nazi Germany for being "anti-German"
pK8Q TIL in WW2 the Germans had a secret base in Norway developing nuclear weapons until a small group of Norwegian commandos blew it up in the middle of the winter.