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TIL Buster Keaton's film The Navigator (1924) was filmed on the USAT Buford. The ship had previously been used for the First Red Scare, as the "Soviet Ark" to deport 249 "undesirables" from the United States to revolutionary Russia, among them the noted anarchist Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman.

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xVOMo TIL that the handrail around the turret in some early WW2 tanks is an antenna. The presence of a handrail antenna would reveal to the enemy that the tank is a command tank, which made it a primary target in the combat. Because of this, it was eventually replaced with a whip antenna.
M7497 TIL On 28 January 1896, the first person to be convicted of speeding is believed to be Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, UK, who was fined 1 shilling plus costs for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h).
e0lOn TIL There is a stadium in Brazil in which the midfield line is supposedly made exactly on the equator making each team defend one hemisphere.
WxjX TIL in 1975, a 15-year-old girl was beaten to death, with the primary suspects in the murder being Kennedy-Cousins Thomas and Michael Skakel. Although Michael Skakel was overheard in 1978 stating, “I’m going to get away with murder. I’m a Kennedy”, it was not until 2002 that he was convicted.
worP6 TIL that in the 19th Century, Rudolf Lindt, of the famous Lindt chocolate family, accidentally invented the crucial step of "conching" chocolate – rolling the warm cocoa mass to make it smooth and reduce its acidity – by leaving a cocoa mass mixer running overnight.