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TIL postwar Warsaw, Poland was rebuilt using 18th century paintings.

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8eGg4 TIL that when USS Taylor was transporting members of the press off USS Missouri after the signing of the Japanese surrender, the ship's mascot, a dog named Subic who had been abused during the Japanese occupation of The Philippines, bit one of the Japanese newsmen in the leg.
j6MDQ TIL that footage from the video game Arma 3, a military sandbox game, has been mistaken for actual combat footage and has been used in news reports a number of times due to the realistic nature of the game.
Km0w TIL Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith has the most visual effects for any film, ever
v1kjr TIL that in 1980, a Somali government prisoner was sentenced to life in solitary confinement. He contemplated suicide until the prisoner in the next cell tapped out the words of a book in modified Morse code.
W7YNX TIL Ketchup has to be a certain weight to be considered “Fancy”.