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TiL - Women used to turn their teeth black with a solution of iron filings and vinegar.

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MeoJK TIL that the Germans saw the signing of the treaty of Versailles as humiliating defeat. The treaty was signed in the Compiègne Wagon. When the French surrendered to the Germans in 1940, Hitler had the wagon taken out of a museum and placed in the same spot for signing the new armistice.
Yp9gx TIL Fleetwood Mac's album Tusk broke the record for the most expensive album production, costing over $1 million ($3.5+ million in today's money) to record.
VBYWQ TIL In 2010, the Russian Navy ordered the repair of a nuclear battlecruiser at a cost of $11 million dollars. Prosecutors later revealed that the actual cost of this work should have been $8 million and the other $3 million was stolen. As was discovered later, no repair work was carried at all.
rpV1 TIL that the highest grossing piece of entertainment of any kind, ever, with a gross of 5.6 billion dollars, is Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “The Phantom of the Opera”
wL9PW TIL in 2018, a United Airlines flight attendant got annoyed by a dog barking and told the family to put him in the overhead bin. The dog died in there during the 4-hour-flight.