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TIL that the soundtrack of The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou was mostly David Bowie songs translated into Portuguese and performed by a Brazilian samba artist on an acoustic guitar

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9YPxG TIL that the very first trench coat ever invented was by Burberry and was made strictly for crawling and walking through trenches in WWI
8ylb TIL that creating a Death Star would cost roughly $850,000,000,000,000,000 and that it would take about 833,000 years to build. It would also need a laser of 1,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms worth of matter to have enough energy to destroy a planet for each time it was fired.
0d6YL TIL that the Chicago Daily Tribune was so sure in Thomas E. Dewey winning the 1948 presidential election, they printed the next day edition with an incorrect headline "Dewey Defeats Truman".
loyw5 TIL during the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese military had a sophisticated air force and anti-air defense system which destroyed 10,000 US aircraft (including 3,744 planes and 5,607 helicopters) and 1,018 South Vietnamese aircraft. The North Vietnamese only lost 170 aircraft.
9YvnQ TIL In 1924, Harold Israel was a vagrant accused of the murder of a priest. All the evidence seemed to fit him, but in court, the prosecutor Homer Cummings logically tore the case against him to shreds and freed him. Years later, Homer contacted him to share money from a film deal based on the case.