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TIL the inventor of Starlite, a material that can withstand the heat from a nuclear flash, never revealed the composition until his death.

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yPmX TIL that the democratically elected government of Iran was ousted by the CIA in 1953 because they nationalised their oil.
R54D8 Til Marcus Licinius Crassus, often called the richest man in Rome in time of Julius Ceasar, created first ever Roman fire brigade. However the brigade wouldn't put out the fire until the owner would sell the property in question to Crassus for miserable price.
QJbra TIL Alfred Hitchcock's movie "Rear Window" was inspired by two actual murder cases. The first was a doctor who killed his wife, told friends she went to America. The second was a man who dismembered his pregnant girlfriend, throwing pieces of her body out a train window.
R6El TIL Stephen Colbert founded a shell corporation in Delaware named Anonymous Shell Corporation so it could be given large donations to anonymously funnel into his Super PAC, he asked FMR. FEC Chairman Trevor Potter how it was different from money laundering. Potter’s response was “It’s hard to say.”
x6yk5 TIL Sean Connery had a younger brother named Neil, a plasterer and part-time actor who starred in a James Bond knockoff called ‘O.K. Connery’