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TIL that Hunter S. Thompson's last interview was from a movie called "Fuck"

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4k6yN TIL that during Star Trek filming, censors required actresses not to show their navels. Gene Roddenberry was so irked by this that he made the villains in his 1973 TV movie "Genesis II" identifiable by each having two navels, thus filming each navel he’d previously been forced to censor twice over.
j6V8E TIL About the British Free Corps. Made of up volunteer British POWs during WW2 it was attached to the SS. Never rising above platoon strength it never saw any significant action and unit survivors were either court martialed, imprisoned or executed.
L8x0 TIL multiple case reports exist of adolescents injecting themselves with elemental mercury after having seen X-Men Origins: Wolverine and incorrectly believing they can convert their bones to metal by injecting themselves with liquid metal.
RV56 TIL the Soviet Union built the world’s first laser tank. (x-post from /r/TankPorn).
J1vd4 TIL that the quadratic formula was discovered in India by the mathematician Brahmagupta.