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TIL that Star Trek: The Next Generation was to include dolphins and whales as crewmembers but the idea proved too expensive to film and was stopped except for mentions of Cetacean Operations.

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wLQGY TIL in 1992, the UK set up a fake company in order to buy Soviet T-80 tanks, claiming they would be sent to Morocco. The UK studied the tanks and gifted one to the USA for the same purpose.
bo7Z TIL Nightingale floors, or uguisubari (japanese - 鴬張り), were floors designed to make a chirping sound when walked upon. According to myth these floors were developed as a means of defense against ninjas.
oRKmK TIL of actor Leslie Banks who received partial facial wounding in the First World War. Banks would take advantage of this in his career, by using the scarred side for darker films, and the undamaged side for light-hearted movies.
LGam TIL dwarfism was not seen as a defect in ancient Egypt. Ancient Egyptian texts promoted the acceptance of those with physical or mental disabilities, and there were two dwarf gods, Bes and Ptah
v1pZ7 TIL of Vissarion, a Russian mystic and spiritual leader who claims to be a reincarnation of Jesus Christ. His church has over 10000 followers, of which 4000 live together deep in Siberia. Members are forbidden from using money, eating meat, and vices, all done to prepare for an apocalyptic flood.