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TIL the trench coat was invented by Burberry's for the trenches of World War 1, gabardine wool is semi-water resistant

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vWXx TIL Creed Bratton from The Office is played by the real life Creed Bratton, former member of the 1960s band The Grass Roots
VKD8 TIL in 2007, there was a horrific accident in Tieling, China, where thirty tons of 1500°C molten steel spilled from a ladle and burst into an adjoining room filled with workers, killing 32. It was China’s most serious steel industry accident since 1949. Bodies had to be identified by DNA testing.
4keeX TIL that, the first Lockheed U-2 spy plane pilots, during extended flights, wore suits equipped with an indwelling urinary catheter. This tube, inserted through the penis into the bladder, siphoned urine into a bag. This suite and solution was unpopular among pilots
8aBZK TIL that “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” by Cyndi Lauper is a cover, and was originally written and recorded by George Hazard in 1979
VZB8 TIL that the analysis of the camera of the Surveyor 3 lunar landing probe, which was brought back by the crew of Apollo 12 in 1969, two years after it landed, showed that bacteria that had entered it during manufacturing had survived the lunar conditions.