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TIL the Nazi Germany nuclear weapons program was split in several agencies, including the Reich Postal Ministry

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bOxQ TIL Matt Damon did not take part in military training exercises with Tom Hanks and other actors prior to filming Saving Private Ryan. The filmmakers wanted to preserve a real-life resentment of Damon because the other actors’ characters resented Private Ryan in the film.
xa0o TIL: Britain was still paying off its WWII debts owed to America & Canada as recently as 2006. The last payment of $83.25 was wired to America 12/29/06; 6 years late, due to intermittent financial difficulties, having negotiated a 50 year payment plan in 1950.
9bkm TIL there is no such thing as a true one-way mirror; they are equally as reflective on each side, but one room is kept much darker than the other room, thus preventing the lighter room from seeing through it.
BgaRe TIL the only public commercial hovercraft service in the world connects Portsmouth with the Isle of Wight
X0vK8 TIL In 1987, genetic fingerprinting (DNA profiling) was used in a US criminal court for the first time. The convicted criminal served twenty-two years in prison.