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TIL in the famous Casablanca scene where French refugees defy the Nazis by singing their national anthem, many are played by actual refugees who had just fled the Nazis – which is why many are visibly weeping as they sing

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4EYw TIL than Santino is a zoo chimp that spends his mornings gathering rocks and other projectiles to throw at visitors who annoy him during the day
0LNA TIL that the German Blitzkrieg on France in 1940 was fueled in large part by crystal meth. A patented pill form of the drug called Pervitin enabled German soldiers to fight for days at a time without sleeping.
nNGW TIL that Queen Victoria hated being pregnant, viewed breast-feeding with disgust, and thought newborn babies were ugly.
dYRd TIL that scientists have developed a substance so black, the human eye can’t comprehend what it is seeing
9w7Z7 TIL After the US Navy lost the USS Thresher in 1963, it instituted a quality assurance program called SUBSAFE for its submarines. As a result they went from losing 16 submarines to non-combat reasons in the 48 years before, to losing only the USS Scorpion (which wasn’t SUBSAFE certified) since 1963.