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TIL Harrison Ford smokes and used to sale weed

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ZpwnQ TIL that Karl Silberbauer, the Nazi police officer who raided and arrested Anne Frank and her family, bought her diary to see if he was mentioned in the book.
rRmVy TIL in 1921 a group of workers in a fertilizer factory stuck dynamite in a 4.5k lbs block of hardened ammonium nitrate to loosen it up. The resulting explosion killed 500 people, destroyed 80% of the surrounding homes and ripped the roofs off of buildings 15 miles away.
R7K9l TIL that the legendary 1981 film "Das Boot" was shot as if it were a silent film, with all of the dialogue and sound added later, because the cameras and their newly developed gyroscopic stabilizers, used for the submarine interiors, drowned out the dialogue and diegetic sound.
Wk0MB TIL that the suds of shampoo, soap and many other foaming products is often artifically added to the product to help convince us that it is working.
d8LBd TIL Legos last up to 1300 years, clogging up the earth’s oceans. Along with garbage such as plastic bottles and bags, ocean surfaces contain more of these plastic particles than larval fish. In commercial fishing seas, fishing nets collect over 10,000 pieces of plastic in an average 5 minute tow.