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TIL Stanley Kubrick used lenses commissioned by NASA for the Apollo moon landings while filming his Victorian masterpiece, Barry Lyndon, allowing him to capture scenes lit only by candlelight.

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a8GmN TIL in 1958, 14-year-old Caril Ann Fugate and her 18-year-old boyfriend killed her parents and strangled her two-year-old sister to death in their Nebraska home — then went on a multi-state rampage in which they murdered 8 people and killed at least 2 dogs with their bare hands
Rpr4 TIL in the year 2000, UK TV viewers deemed the words ‘fuck’ and 'wanker’ more offensive than the words 'nigger’ and 'paki’. (Page 52).
a8gGb TIL that U.S. suicide rates reached record heights in 2022
X05OQ TIL Unilever became big as a colonial power with an area 2.5 times Belgium and mostly forced labor
VM8ED TIL about the weather phenomenon dubbed St. Elmo's fire. It occurs when a luminous plasma is created in an electrical field, resulting in a bright blue glow accompanied by a sharp cracking noise. When affecting ships at sea, it often warned of an incoming lightning strike, leaving sailors awestruck.