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TIL that Leonardo da Vinci designed a scuba suit.
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TIL that the Star Wars movie Rogue One had a alternative title called Dark Times, but was rejected during pre-production.
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TIL that all of the spent nuclear fuel in the United States could be safely stored in a building the size of a Wal-Mart
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TIL, the FBI arrested nearly all of the top officials of Crystal City, Texas in one afternoon on felony charges varying from bribery, to illegal gambling, and even human smuggling.
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TIL that war pigs were used in ancient warfare, to counter against war elephants, which feared the pigs (and their squeals) and would bolt. War pigs were sometimes lit on fire to enhance this effect.
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TIL that the first American civil war reenactors were actually veterans of the war.