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TIL part of Holland can be flooded to keep an invading army out, transforming Holland into an island

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Wk6aB TIL that the actor who played Luca Brasi in the Godfather was actually a member of the Colombo crime family sent to monitor the set. Coppola cast him, but due to his nerves, he kept making mistakes and repeating his lines to himself. This was then incorporated into the film as a character trait.
69Vb8 TIL that on top of the 3 matters of state that we’re all familiar with (solid, liquid, gas), there are at least 24 more, though most only exist under extreme conditions
RJ17 TIL a 93-YEAR-OLD Japanese man has been officially recognised as the only person to have survived two nuclear bombs.
m1xdp TIL the carriage used in President Kennedy’s funerary procession has an interesting history of its own. It also once carried the remains of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945, and the Unknown Soldier in 1921.
aOGo TIL the three mile limit for international waters was created as this was the maximum distance a cannon ball could travel from the shore.