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TIL that the only fatality in the 1914 wartime sinking of the HMS Audacious was a sailor on another ship 800 yards away who was killed by a flying chunk of armor when the fully evacuated Audacious exploded

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jNWQN TIL that before Europeans used the word "panther" for melanistic leopards and jaguars, it was a mythical animal, typically a big cat with a multicoloured hide. In heraldry it is depicted with coloured spots and flames coming from its mouth and ears, representing the sweet smelling odour of its roar.
ANPVl TIL for movie The Reader (2008), the filming of the movie had to be delayed for 2 years so that actor David Kross had turned 18 in order to shoot sex scenes with Kate Winslet.
1a0bX TIL that a flock of ravens can be called an Unkindness because they are often associated with bad luck and are trickster animals in mythology
vP6k7 TIL: 100 Americans a year choke to death on pen caps, but that the number used to be higher before manufacturers put a hole in the cap
kOLNE TIL Stan Lee and Jack Kirby intended the Hulk to be gray. But the printing press kept having trouble with the Hulk's color and he kept coming out green. So he only spent the first few issues of his comic being gray.