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TIL that during The Great War Britain ran out of binoculars, so they turned to the leading manufacturer of optics to buy them: Germany. In turn Germany bought from Britain what they most needed: rubber.

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9wrQG TIL 50 years after the last Apollo mission in 1972, only 4 of the 12 moonwalkers are still alive: Charlie Duke, Buzz Aldrin, Dave Scott and Harrison Schmitt. After leaving NASA, Duke chose the creationist belief that everything in the universe was created by a God
BkgD TIL that during the Development of Street Fighter II, one of the game’s designer, Yoshiki Okamoto, originally wanted Chun-Li’s health bar to be shorter than the other fighters’ because “women are not as strong.”
1kkD TIL Betty Robinson, an Olympic runner, was involved in a plane crash in 1931 and was wrongly pronounced dead upon first being discovered. She spend 7 months in a coma and it took her 2 years to learn to walk normally again. In 1936, she returned to the US olympic team and won gold in the relay.
ay0o TIL that on Aug. 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse will be visible across the United States. The last total solar eclipse visible from the U.S. mainland happened on Feb. 26, 1979, but this one is different. The eclipse’s ‘path of totality’ is completely within U.S. soil for the first time since 1776.
yVdop TIL About 'Eden' a reality show that aired for about a month on the UK's Channel 4. Cancelled after only a few episodes the show continued 'filming' for almost a year without telling the dwindling contestants the show had actually been cancelled.