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TIL the producers of the movie Das Boot used a life size mock-up of a U-Boat for the exterior shots. One morning the crew woke up to find it missing, only to later learn that a certain filmmaker named Steven Spielberg had rented it for his movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and no one had told them

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M7AR0 TIL that every 50 years, the flowering of a species of bamboo in Northeast India and Northwest Myanmar causes a ''flood'' of black rats that feed on the nutritious bamboo seeds and widespread famine. The last bloom was in 2006.
VZ64 TIL: 2,000-year-old seeds were discovered in 1963 inside an ancient jar in Israel. They were planted in 2005 and a tree that had been extinct for over 1800 years sprouted.
pWwN TIL that in 1971, 3 cosmonauts were exposed to space when their module, Soyuz 11, depressurized after separation from the world’s first space station. They are the only men who have died in space.
69Grl TIL that no-one knows what the "H." stands for in "Jesus H. Christ". Some speculate it's "Harold", as in "Harold be thy name".
4XpXb TIL NASA has a swat team