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TIL Steven Spielberg's carreer began when he was a boy scout, by making a nine-minute 8mm film entitled "The Last Gunfight" which earned him a photography merit badge.

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Le9d TIL that drivers over 85 have almost twice as many fatalities per mile travelled as teenagers in the US.
6yVw TIL that, Cards against Humanity bought an island to preserve wildlife
vnJB TIL HMS Thetis has the rare and unwanted honor of a submarine to have twice sunk and killed her crew. She sank during trials in 1939, drowning 99 men, before being raised and renamed. Sunk again during battle in 1943, her entire second crew was also lost.
LkNdd TIL someone has looked for and found a single needle hidden in a haystack. Done by hand, it took Sven Sachsalber 18 hours to complete this task at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
81lX TIL during 1936 Berlin Olympic games, the Nazis ridiculed the US for relying on “non-human black auxiliaries.” American black athlete Jesse Owens went on to win 4 gold medals and beat a German at Long Jump in front of Hitler. Four years after Owens’ death, a street in Berlin was renamed after him.