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TIL Soviet Union had a space station armed with a 23mm autocannon

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LkJWd TIL the British Royal Navy allows sailors to have facial hair, but only if they can grow a "sufficiently thorough beard" within 14 days.
7Lvp TIL that Volvo engineer Niels Bohlin invented the three point seatbelt, but Volvo gave away the patent to other manufacturers because it had more value as a free life saving tool.
XgMQ TIL a German Mathematician predicted a flood would engulf the world on Feb. 20th, 1524. A nobleman had him build a three story ark to survive this “apocalypse”. People had gathered to see the ark, when a light rain started hundreds were stampeded to death in the ensuing panic.
Gl9Q TIL that Christoph Waltz is the first and, thus far, only actor to win an Oscar for acting in a Quentin Tarantino film.
rpV1 TIL that the highest grossing piece of entertainment of any kind, ever, with a gross of 5.6 billion dollars, is Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “The Phantom of the Opera”