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TIL That decades old TV shows and movies can be up-scaled to HD because they were shot in HQ, but the technology at that time wouldn’t allow HD viewing.

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M7gEK TIL Rihanna was an army cadet in a sub-military program, where the later Barbadian singer-songwriter Shontelle was her drill sergeant
4kdPR TIL about HSC Francisco, the fastest passenger ship in operation, serving the Buenos Aires - Montevideo route at 67 mph / 107 kph
4kgmb TIL: After the development of the atomic bomb, "Uranium Fever" caused by high demand for radioactive material led approximately ten thousand people to the Southwest U.S. to mine Uranium.
e07W6 TIL that Sloths only defecate once a week and %50 of sloth deaths occur at this time.
woeO8 TIL that "the father of the atom bomb" Robert Oppenheimer's daughter Toni was refused security clearance as a UN translator after the FBI brought up the old charges against her father. In 1977 she hanged herself at the beach house she inherited from her parents.