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TIL, talk-show host Montel Williams, Jr. served 22 years in the Navy, worked as a cryptologist and retired as Lt. Commander.

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K55B TIL While filming ‘Das Boot’, an actor fell overboard and broke a few ribs. Someone shouted, “Man overboard!” The director didn’t realize it was an accident and yelled, “Good idea, Jan.” He still kept the scene and rewrote the actor’s part so his character spent the rest of the movie in bed.
JY5vV TIL that in old Nokia phones, the notification tone for an SMS was simply 'SMS' in Morse
KOBP9 TIL that a peice of horse tack known as the 'Bearing Rein' was extreamly in the 18th and 19th century to keep horses heads up due to a fashion, they were often tightened til the point of discomfort for the horse, until a story about a horse was released in 1877 and bearing reins fell out of fashion
dD8vZ TIL 1931 Best Picture nominee Trader Horn, the first non-documentary filmed in Africa, had one crew member eaten by a crocodile, another stampeded by a rhinoceros, and the lead actress suffered a career ending illness
vPlyj TIL about the Louvre doll, an ancient hex doll found in Roman Egypt and dated to the 3rd-4th century CE. It was pierced with multiple pins and was found with a love spell.