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TIL that the main turrets on a battleship like the USS Missouri would fall out if the ship were to capsize because the main turrets are not attached to the ship directly and are kept in place by their mass.

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lov0G TIL Young children will often effortlessly write in perfect mirror image because they haven't yet unlearned the idea that every object in the world is the same thing regardless of its orientation. 'Mirror writing' comes easily to them. Eg; A teddy is a teddy upside down or not, but a 'p' is not 'b'.
jXDp TIL that Mormonism founder Joseph Smith along with his following Brigham Young believed that Moon as well as Sun is inhabited by Men and Women who lived as long as 1000 years with men all being 6 feet tall dressed uniformly like Quakers.
yQQpw The science of the "vampire facial"
VBk7D TIL that the movie Nosferatu (1922) was banned in Sweden until 1972 because it contained extreme horror.
Wk8GA TIL of Arvīds Blūmentāls, a rumored prototype for Crocodile Dundee and Latvian Baron who deserted the Waffen-SS for the Foreign Legion before relocating to Australia. He hunted 10,000 crocodiles with his bare hands and lived in a hillside dugout so bizarre it was used in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.