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TIL the Cincinnati Library has 3D printers, audio and visual equipment, laser cutters and engravers, sewing machines, cameras and other hardware and software tools that patrons can use for free.

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PYK1E TIL that upon hearing of Napoleon's abdication, the Duke of Wellington - a famously stoic individual - broke into an impromptu flamenco dance, spinning around on his heels and clicking his fingers.
8nQV TIL Dick Jones nearly drowned while reading his “underwater” lines in the film Pinocchio, as he was “lying on his back while a director poured water into his mouth.”
OoxMY TIL The same week Anne Heche was cast in her first starring role Touchstone Pictures fired her after she made a red carpet appearance on the arm of Ellen DeGeneres, who she'd met just days earlier. Harrison Ford used his influence to get her rehired, but the damage to her career was already done.
W7Z5B TIL Mansfield Smith-Cumming, inspiration for James Bond's "M," was involved in discovering cum worked as an invisible ink during WW1. Agents adopted the motto "Every man his own stylo". However, the use of semen as invisible ink was ceased because of the smell it produced for the eventual receiver.
Oxl4 TIL Ten days after the Chernobyl disaster, further risk of massive thermal explosion was identified, then three men known as “The Chernobyl divers” volunteered to swim through pooled water under leaked reactor to find and release the safety valves. They died few days later due to radiation exposure