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TIL Ford Motor Company made experimental helmets for soldiers in WW1. The Model No. 8 helmet made between 1917 and 1918 weight 3 lbs and looked like a knight helmet.

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5KPQ TIL Tommy Wiseau used a 35mm film camera and an HD video camera side-by-side when shooting The Room because he didn’t know which format was best and couldn’t choose one.
YpJmd TIL About Greek Fire. An incendiary weapon developed by the Byzantines in the 7th century, it was deployed on ships, and in handheld tubes, operating similar to a flamethrower. Water didn’t extinguish it. Its precise chemical composition is still unknown.
kOXZE TIL that blind people can use echolocation to see
axEo TIL Mountain gorillas are naturally afraid of chameleons and nobody knows why.
5VwDP TIL that Titan’s surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth. Saturn’s moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to Cassini data.