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TIL Stephen Colbert's father and brothers were killed in a plane crash because the flight crew were discussing politics among other subjects

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QNxRe TIL British army tanks have a pair of eyes painted on them. A Chinese businessman insisted on this when he gave money for a tank during WW1. He said; "No got eyes, how can see? No can see, how can save? No can save, how can chop chop?" The 'Chinese Eye' is now a long standing tradition.
e0kR4 TIL in 1999, the mummified remains of a pregnant Hispanic woman were found in a drum in the crawl space of a house in NY. She was identified as Reyna Marroquín, a woman who’d vanished in 1969. She’d had an affair with her employer. He killed himself before police could properly question him.
LLxp TIL a mycologist named Paul Stamets argues mushrooms will revolutionize our way of life by using the mycelium fungus to clean polluted soil, make insecticides, treat smallpox and even flu viruses.
AOoo TIL if you pause a YouTube video, click outside the frame and type ‘1980’, you will be forced to fight off missiles!
78Emp TIL that the first Sci-Fi movie ever created was released in 1895. Created by the Lumière brothers, “La Charcuterie mécanique” (The Mechanical Butcher) features a mechanical box instantaneously turning a whole pig into sausage, chops, and ribs.