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TIL that Captain America actually "took part" in the Second World War since the character was used as propaganda to motivate people into buying war bonds

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7rxrp TIL a magnet powerful enough to lift an aircraft carrier is in the ITER fusion reactor core
QJ6ZE TIL the oldest company in the world has been operating since 578 AD
QwGL TIL that there is a soccer team in Spain that since 1912 has only signed players who were born or raised in the Basque Country (where less than 7% of Spain’s population live). Despite that, the team is one of the most successful teams in Spain, and is one of the only teams never to be relegated
N77KE TIL that Shakespeare's wife's name was Anne Hathaway
JY7RQ TIL during the filming of the Lord of the Rings, Christopher Lee (a WW2 veteran) corrected director Peter Jackson on the right noise a person who got stabbed in the back and die would make: it's not an "argh" scream, but an "uh" because "the breath is driven out of your body". (Video starts at 0:10)