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wmZP TIL that Christopher Nolan didn’t want to make TDKR following Heath Ledger’s death, but he agreed to make the movie if Warner Bros. allowed him free reign to make anything he wanted in the interim. The end result was Inception.
R7Yd6 TIL that the swastikas on Allied aircrafts in old pictures are called victory markings, and marked each Nazi plane downed by that aircraft. Bomb stencils marked each mission run. The names of pilots and crew were added before the craft was retired from duty.
9Ykr6 TIL that in 1938, Henry Ford was awarded Nazi Germany's Grand Cross of the German Eagle. That is the medal awarded to foreigners sympathetic to Nazism.
b6ppj TIL Alfa Romeo's logo contains a snake eating a human
m1Xpp TIL the bull shark, an aggressive species which can grow up to 13 feet long, has been found as far inland as Alton, Illinois, upstream from St. Louis, Missouri.