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TIL the Honjo Masamune, considered one of the finest Japanese swords ever made, was taken by US forces after WW2 and never seen again

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R7wn7 TIL about Harry Wesley Coover Jr who discovered super glue (cyanoacrylate) in 1942. He ignored it as being too sticky for what he needed. He then rediscovered it in 1956 while at Eastman Kodak who put it into production. It gained notoriety in the Vietnam War as a way to close battlefield wounds.
a8J1A TIL in the 1980s, Jim Davis wanted plush Garfields made with Velcro so people could hang them on curtains, but the factory mistakenly returned the prototype with suction cups. He approved it. They soon became a craze and people were putting them on car windows and smashing car windows to steal them.
l78Gr TIL The crew of an Egyptian ferry extinguised a fire in the engine room by sinking the ship. Around 800 people died.
v1yoD TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger is capable of speaking English without his accent, but chooses to speak with an accent as it's tied to his public image and for his fans
jYAM TIL there is a 3,200 km long sea without a coastline in the middle of the ocean, and it is warmer and clearer than the surrounding ocean water