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TIL there's 110 million landmines still buried, across nearly 70 countries

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9Y4Wm TIL about 'Wolfskinder' - orphaned German children during WW2 who fled the then East Prussia to Lithuania. They survived hunger, cold and loss of identity. It was estimated that upto 25000 kids were roaming the woods and swamps of these regions after 1945.
W7EyB TIL That Garrett Brown, inventor of the Skycam suspended camera used to shoot sporting events, got the idea from a conversation with former football player Merlin Olsen the set of Little House on the Prairie.
eAYE TIL due to the fact that the US Navy refused to help in the production of Crimson Tide, the producers couldn’t get footage of a submarine diving underwater. Their solution was to wait outside of Pearl Harbor and follow and film the first submarine to leave.
Mena0 TIL that Schrödinger actually hated his cat in a box theory; he made it up as a way to mock the current theory of quantum mechanics and accidentally created a great example