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TIL the Technicolor company had a custom train-car built in the 1910s to process color film on location

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E1dJW TIL that Nazi leader Hermann Göring once claimed "No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Göring. You may call me Meyer.". This would later come back to haunt him as Allied bombers devastated Germany and citizens began to call him "Meyer".
R5rW9 TIL The Federal Reserve removes and shreds 5000+ tons of paper currency each year.
Lk98r TIL the NASA cameras that tracked Apollo rockets were built off of M-45 quadmount anti-aircraft gun systems
OX8Y TIL that during WW2 Nazi Germany had a hospital/concentration camp in village Krasny Bereg where they drained all blood from thousands of soviet children (obviously, killing them in the process) to transfuse it to wounded soldiers of the Wehrmacht
OGGVY TIL: During the Gallipoli campaign a famed war correspondent tasked Keith Murdoch with smuggling a letter back to Britain criticizing the campaign. Military press censors stopped Murdoch and confiscated the letter, Murdoch simply copied the letter from memory and added his name.