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TIL All of the chainmail in the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy were made by hand, link by link.

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LkeDv TIL a Man Saved A Drowning 400-lb Black Bear.
PYMyZ TIL that NASA engineers had issues with the honey comb insulation of the Saturn V rocket, so they ended up hiring local surfers, who had experience in working with the material, to apply it to the rocket.
9YWV7 TIL that Tutankhamun’s successors tried to erase his name from history. This meant his memory was preserved as the location of his tomb was forgotten, hiding it from robbers. It remained virtually untouched for thousands of years until its discovery in 1922.
PYawe TIL Orville Redenbacher died from drowning in his Jacuzzi.
GYlZ1 TIL Goats have accents and if you take two goats from different parts of the world they won’t be able to understand each other