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TIL despite the director of Downfall enjoying the Internet memes and parodies of his film, producers initiated a removal of parody videos in 2010. This prompted more posting of parody videos of Hitler complaining that the parodies were being taken down, and a resurgence of the videos online.

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XdPX TIL the crew of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station have an annual winter tradition where they watch all three versions of “The Thing”, a horror film about an alien lifeform that attacks researchers on an Antarctic base.
Mev5W TIL that rainbows have cousins. Fogbows appear when water droplets suspended in the air are so small that the diffraction of light is negligible, hence appearing white. It also causes the arc to be steeper. They’re sometimes known as ghost rainbows or white rainbows.
5VV8p TIL There is a sunken ship near the coast of England with roughly 1.500 tons of unexploded unstable explosives, that could go off by it self.
vPjXj TIL: Keep Calm and Carry On was the third of three posters designed by the UK's Ministry of Information in April 1939. Nearly 2.5 million copies were printed in the weeks before WWII, but almost all were subsequently pulped when public response to the first two posters was overwhelmingly negative.
VLQD TIL: in 1975, after a skydiving student’s main parachute became entangled with the plane, he deployed his reserve chute. This caused the plane to stall and engines to fail. Everybody on board survived as the plane descended under the reserve chute.