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TIL Canadians attempted to build a ship out of ice during WWII.
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TIL that because broadcast satellite technology wasn’t invented yet, footage from the 1960 Rome Olympics was videoed and flown back to the US by plane and often aired events the same day they happened
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TIL about Veronica Seider who possessed a visual acuity 20 times better than average. She could identify people at a distance of more than a mile (1.6 km).
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TIL the Chevy Vega was developed to be shipped vertically in order to cut shipping costs by 40%.
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TIL: Ray Charles gave 10 of his 12 children each a check for $1 million at a family luncheon, while the other two couldn’t make it.
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TIL the Union Jack is not symmetrical, to guarantee you can’t hang it upside down