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TIL that when filming the movie Titanic they only built the port side of the ship. Scenes showing the starboard side were flipped in post production. As a result of this everything on the starboard side of the ship, from lettering to the buttons on costumes, had to be backwards during filming.

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j64eR TIL Neil Armstrong received hundreds of thousands of cards and letters from all over the world after his historic moon landing. James Hansen selected 400 letters out of 75,000 for publication in a book and donated 55 hours of one-on-one tape-recorded interviews with Armstrong to Purdue’s Archives
4XpLN TIL top US government officials proposed committing acts of terror against US citizens in false flag attacks as a pretext to invade Cuba, before being denied by President Kennedy.
J4Rm TIL The glass harmonica is considered by some to be the world’s most dangerous instrument - Credited with unexplained deaths as well as causing Tinnitus and mental breakdowns
Br5ne TIL Alberta has no rats due to serious rat control policies, including a $5000 fine for having a rat. In 2004 someone released 38 rats in Calgary but by the time the rat control officers arrived the local residents had already formed an armed posse and hunted them down with brooms, 2x4s, and shovels
8aDjP TIL the FBI has a very specific definition for 'serial killer': someone who has intentionally killed at least 3 people, but not all at once. There must be so-called ‘cooling off’ periods between each murder.