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9YAXX TIL that Samuel Colt, famous for producing the revolver,originally created underwater mines. They were highly effective, however John Quincy Adams scuttled the project as "not fair and honest warfare" and termed the Colt mine an "unchristian contraption." So Colt returned his attentions to guns.
5VA1Q TIL King Sisowath of Cambodia cooperated with the French Government and was rewarded a new palace, a steam-powered yacht and a 250 lb per year supply or high grade opium
4kVdR TIL that steel wool actually gains weight when it is burned, due to oxygen molecules combining with iron.
oyYE TIL that Tolstoy and Gandhi were pen pals for years
9w6gQ TIL that NASA built an elaborate escape route and bunker for Apollo engineers working on the launchpad, which had to take dozens of factors into account to withstand the absolutely massive explosion that would occur if the Saturn V exploded on the launchpad.