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TIL President Martin Van Beuren, the 8th Presisdnt of the United States, was the only US President to speak English as his second language

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VMJmk TIL the producers of the movie Das Boot used a life size mock-up of a U-Boat for the exterior shots. One morning the crew woke up to find it missing, only to later learn that a certain filmmaker named Steven Spielberg had rented it for his movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and no one had told them
78ZMp TIL about the Macchina of Santa Rosa, a 30m/98ft high machine built to honour Saint Rose of Viterbo. Every year 100 men called "Facchini di Santa Rosa" hoist the machine, weighing about 5k kg/11k lb, and carry it through the streets of Viterbo, in Italy. The machine is rebuilt anew every five years
X0rD8 TIL The Space Shuttle Challenger was built as a vibration-test vehicle and then upgraded to become an operational Shuttle.
GAv1Q TIL body cameras are being marketed for hospital workers in the U.S. and there are privacy concerns that this will cause footage of a patient's most intimate and private moments to be accessible by numerous hospital employees, hackers, and criminals.
VMev8 TIL Game Of Thrones Actor Hafthor Bjornsson aka The Mountain Deadlifted A World Record 1103lbs / 501kg Proving He Really Is A Mountain Of A Man!