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

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vLVD TIL Grave of the Fireflies is based on the authors own experiences as a child and was written as a personal apology for not being able to save his younger sister Keiko.
j6GGa TIL of the 'McTaggart Paradox': a logical argument that our perception of time is an illusion- because it fundamentally contradicts itself- but also necessary to view events as moving together from past to future.
BYed TIL in 1964, the US government hired two average physics PhDs to design an atom bomb based solely on publicly available information to see how easy it actually is.
RP4a TIL a Texas woman was arrested for selling dildos in an undercover sting operation targeting dildo salesmen
W7g09 TIL only about 200 people had summited Mount Everest by 1987, whereas by 2013 it had been summited 6,871 times by 4,042 different people.