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TIL in 1941 a Norway woman was hit by a Nazi shrapnel that gave her a German accent

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78nGP TIL that despite publicly denouncing the film adaptation of his novel, I Spit on Your Graves, Boris Vian attended movie’s premiere in 1959. A few minutes into the screening, he stood up and began shouting out his dissatisfaction with it, during which he suddenly collapsed and died.
gM0b7 TIL Why music from old video game systems sounded so different.
LQXap TIL the Saturn V rocket, which first took humans to the Moon, weighed just under three million kilogrammes before launch, or roughly the weight of 400 elephants. More than 90% of this weight was fuel alone, leaving a payload of just 43,000 kilogrammes to reach the Moon's orbit.
XvbP TIL that sales for the soundtrack of “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?” surpassed the movie itself.
x6VwD TIL despite sharing more than 200 miles of border with Wisconsin and only sharing a bridge with Michigan, the Upper Peninsula is part of Michigan (not Wisconsin) because of a fight with Ohio