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TIL the world’s quietest place can allow you to hear your internal organs and can produce hallucinations within 30 minutes

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8B84 TIL Canada’s first deaths in Afghanistan were the result of friendly fire after U.S. Maj. Harry Schmidt ignored direct orders to hold fire and dropped a 500lb missile on a Canadian battalion during training exercises. Schmidt has refused to apologize for his role in the incident.
4kMeJ TIL while filming Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Linda Hamilton suffered permanent hearing damage in one ear when Arnold Schwarzenegger fired a shotgun inside an elevator after she had removed her ear plugs.
5Ymd9 TIL after TJ Miller got accused of sexual misconduct and called in a fake bomb threat, Dreamworks hired an impersonator to dub over his lines in How To Train Your Dragon 3 to match his performance exactly (it had already been animated) in order to not change the film but still dissociate him from it
O6Vg TIL that despite being a symbol for post-modern Anarchism, Guy Fawkes was a devout Catholic who sought to install a Catholic monarchy in England and the Netherlands.
Y7gBr TIL that 2 out of the 3 members of the boy band LFO have lost their lives to cancer.