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TIL that the Nazis made a similar film to James Cameron's Titanic 54 years before he did as an attack on British and American capitalism

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Z8ZYB TIL that notorious mafia boss "Lucky" Luciano aided the WWII effort from his prison cell by ordering his men to protect the East Coast from foreign invasion and convincing his Italian mafia contacts to help the Allies during their invasion of Sicily
1758 TIL there is an index by which to measure how hard your boner is known as the Erectile Hardness Scale.
D9Er TIL the testicles Will Ferrell used in Step Brothers cost $10,000 to make, and are now one of his most treasured keepsakes.
6EedW TIL Milling is a training activity in the British airborne infantry. For a fixed period, two opponents punch each other in the head as aggressively as possible without evasion. An instructor described milling as "arguably the most important event of the [training] course"and its "flagship event"
ne8EW TIL Ben Franklin was such an incredible swimmer that he was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1968.