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TIL Because Christopher Nolan shot Dunkirk on film he was able to recover footage from a camera that had sunk.

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gRxW TIL Winston Churchill was half American by birth - a fact of which he was deeply proud.
80xX TIL the fall of Nokia has decimated Finland’s economy: “By 2000, Nokia accounted for a mindboggling 4% of Finnish GDP, 70% of Helsinki’s stock exchange market capital, 43% of corporate R&D, 21% of total exports and 14% of corporate tax revenues. It was and still is unprecedented.”
EgV5V TIL Poon Lim survived 133 days afloat in the Pacific Ocean aboard an 8' square wooden raft. When rescued and told that no one had ever survived longer on a raft at sea, he simply answered, "I hope no one will ever have to break that record."
X8dD TIL about Hoda Sharaawi, founder of the Egyptian Feminist Union. She became famous when in 1923 she removed her veil in public, causing outrage with authorities.
4rQX TIL an Air Canada passenger flight took a detour and dropped from 37,000 feet to 4,000 feet to help find a stranded yacht off the Australian coast. It took the passengers 25 minutes after the emergency beacon was activated to locate the yacht.