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TIL All the paintings Jack carries with him in the movie Titanic are actually drawn by James Cameron (the director). He also drew the nude-Rose picture himself.

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m1pBo TIL the first practical roadside breathalyzer was used in 1931 and it was called the Drunk-o-meter.
awmON TIL that Ulithi, an isolated Pacific atoll used by the US Navy as a forward base during WWII, was for seven months the largest and most active anchorage in the world. At its height in the run-up to the invasion of Okinawa, more than 700 ships were anchored in its lagoon.
rRZ6d TIL on February 5, 1958, two military airplanes colided during a training mission, resulting in a Mk 15 nuclear bomb being lost somewhere off the coast of Tybee Island, Georgia near Savannah.
OoOl4 TIL microwave ovens DON’T heat food using the “resonant frequency” of water. They work by causing polar molecules (water is one, and so are some fats) to rotate back and forth quickly in an oscillating electromagnetic field, producing molecular vibrations (heat).
e0Evb TIL that David Brandt, the farmer from the "It ain't much but it's honest work" meme, is an expert in no-till farming and soil conservation