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TIL Scientists have created a liquid, bulletproof armor that hardens upon contact

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p8vG4 TIL the earliest Titanic-based movie was released just 29 days after the sinking. It starred one of the survivors. No copies of this film remain.
Ooe64 TIL: Since 1945, all British tanks have been equipped with boiling vessels allowing them to make tea.
loAy7 TIL during the 1930s, George Ross Gyssling was Hitler’s man in Hollywood, placed there to ensure studios complied with the Führer and the suggested cuts or risk anti-Nazi themed films being barred in Germany. But unbeknown to his bosses, he was a double agent passing valuable intelligence to US
ANlxx TIL A Canadian University shut its doors due to funding issues. The school, with 60% American students, has a capacity of 750 but latest enrollment was only at 135
LkPnp TIL that Oleandrin was purported as a promising cancer treatment in a 2013 study, however, the study was retracted (by the publisher) in 2016 because it contained plagiarized materials from user-generated web articles.