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TIL that we still don’t know what greek fire is or how to make it.

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oOBW TIL Walt Disney had his mustache accidentally lit on fire by the animator Ken Anderson. Ken was worried that he’d be fired, and it was showing in his work, so Walt shaved his mustache and spent the week eating lunch with Ken so he wouldn’t feel so alienated.
e0E7E TIL about the Peelian Principles, which are nine rules to encourage ethical policing and public trust in the police within the UK
6EEbW At peak performance, Summit will perform 200 million billion operations a second and require as much energy as a decent-sized city (12,000 homes!).
xkZb TIL There is a bridge in Scotland known as the Overtoun Bridge where around 600 dogs have willingly plunged from the bridge and ended their lives, it has been observed that certain dogs jumped off the bridge and survived climbed back up and threw themselves of it again.
oRlKo TIL about Florence Lawrence the "first movie star". She was buried in an unmarked grave after killing herself with ant poison in 1938. Her career never recovered after she was injured in a fire on set in 1915. Universal refused to pay her medical bills.