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TIL when world champion boxer Joe Louis voluntarily joined the U.S. Army in 1942 he was asked about his decision to enter the (then) racially segregated organisation, he replied: "Lots of things wrong with America, but Hitler ain't going to fix them."

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MwPa TIL that no special effects were used to achieve zero gravity in the movie “Apollo 13”. Through 612 flight parabolic, approximately 4 hours was spent filming on board NASA’s “Vomit Comet” The KC-135, an aircraft designed to train astronauts for the weightlessness of space.
0AXM TIL a German mathematician spent a decade writing a 200 page manuscript about drawing a regular 65537 sided polygon with a compass and a straightedge
J1BoB TIL that in 1982 some Tylenol capsules were laced with cyanide before being sold to consumers, resulting in 7 deaths. The perpetrator was never caught.
JYE1j TIL Sicilian and Italian are two different languages, with Sicilian preceding the Italian language
KYoAE TIL until the 1960s, Tyrannosaurus Rex was widely thought to walk standing upright, dragging their tails on the ground. This misperception endured through the 1980s in popular culture, such as toys and TV shows.