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TIL The stirring theme from 'The Last of the Mohicans' was originally written to accompany a Loch Ness Monster museum exhibit

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WkWl8 TIL Despite being land locked countries, a Czech-Austrian inventor was the first to use a screw type propeller to power a ship. His ship, Civetta of 48 gross register tons, reached a speed of about 6 knots (11 km/h). This was the first ship successfully driven by an Archimedes screw-type propeller.
MeEab TIL As far back as the 1920's Australia serves buttered white bread with sprinkles ( or 100s and 1000s an Australian candy) and call it Fairy Bread
6EmRm TIL in 1975 Otrag, a West-German company, developed cheap transport rockets. The USSR became nervous, and American corporations concerned about low-cost competitors. American media came to use crude Soviet propaganda to sabotage them, making Otrag evicted from their Congolese base (more in comments)
mpxM TIL that for 15 years, the Phoebus Cartel planned the obsolescence of light bulbs by limiting them to 1000 hours usage to make consumers buy more and fined manufacturers whose lightbulbs lasted longer than this.
AD7oo TIL that after Henry VIII was unhorsed in a jousting competition, his second wife Anne Boleyn was so shocked, that she miscarried a male child at 15 weeks. This all occurred on the day of Henry's first wife Catherine of Aragon's funeral - January 29th 1536.