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TIL Kevin Smith’s Dogma is unavailable to stream or purchase digitally and is out of print on home media.

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E1yrp TIL that the USS Indianapolis was sunk 4 days after delivering the enriched uranium for "Little Boy", the first nuclear weapon used in combat. In addition to being the largest ever loss of life for the US Navy at sea, the sinking resulted in the most shark attacks on humans in history.
ap89 TIL: It is legal in South-Africa to equip your car with flame-throwers to prevent carjacking.
R7wZ8 TIL in 1567, the man with the world’s longest-ever beard broke his neck and died after tripping over it.
R01Q TIL British Airways edited out the cameo of rival Richard Branson and obscured the tail-fin of one of Branson’s Virgin Atlantic planes, in the in-flight version of the James Bond flick Casino Royale.
gMXQ8 TIL about US government "doomsday planes." They have 5,000+ sq ft of office space, three floors, 57 cases of MRE's, and each window has an EMP shielding grid.