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TIL of Berthe Mayne, a Belgian singer who claimed to her family to have survived the sinking of the Titanic, traveling 1st class under an alias as the mistress of a young Canadian millionaire. No one believed her until after her death, when her belongings and correspondence corroborated the story.

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0w6BM TIL that Christopher Plummer hated The Sound of Music. He called it The Sound of Mucus or S&M. During filming, he would get drunk in taverns and ate so much schnapps and pastries, that he got very fat. His costumes had to be let out. He was also “dead drunk” during the music festival scene.
KMgR TIL The hair of some cancer patients treated with chemotherapy can grow back in a different colour, and sometimes even be curly or straight.
aw9kL TIL that on Christmas day in 1929 Charlie Lawson, in what is called the Christmas Massacre, murdered his wife and six of his seven children before killing himself. Prior to the murders he took his family into town for one last holiday photo.
LkGDP TIL that the oldest firearms still used by the American military are the M2.50 caliber machine gun and the Colt .45 M1911 pistol. Both were designed by John Browning more than a century ago.
gMpO4 TIL scientists managed to recreate the voice of a 3000-year-old mummified Egyptian priest. They produced a 3D-printed voice box based on a precise scan of his vocal tract, and then used the vocal tract with an artificial larynx sound, synthesising a vowel-like sound reminiscent of a sheep's bleat