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TIL the rat in the James Cameron film 'The Abyss' was actually breathing in breathing fluid

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KYBj9 TIL that despite appearing in 7 Bond films Roger Moore is the only Bond actor not to drive an Aston Martin on screen
j681p TIL Chinese Emperor Qin Er Shi was considered “Son of Heaven”, and that his own voice must never be heard, and his face must never be shown, meaning that ministers rarely had the opportunity to address the emperor. Qin Er Shi was forced to commit suicide at the age of 22
GYgAQ TIL that right before WW2, the US created the "Logan Bar," a chocolate bar that deliberately tasted "a little better than a boiled potato" as an emergency ration to prevent soldiers from snacking on it outside of emergency situations.
8e5kP TIL that Lothar Hermann, a German Holocaust survivor who discovered Adolf Eichmann's whereabouts in Argentina, was arrested in 1961 after misinformation led Argentinian authorities to believe that he was Josef Mengele using a pseudonym. It took 14 days and a fingerprint comparison to exonerate him.
5QeD TIL that early in her career Mila Kunis, who immigrated from Ukraine, auditioned to play a Russian girl who moves to America. Instead, she was cast as a Mexican.