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TIL George Washington had red hair.
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TIL that Veronica Lake had a pilot's license which she used to fly from Los Angeles to New York when she left her husband Andre DeToth in the airplane she bought for him.
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TIL that the US military developed nuclear warheads meant to destroy other incoming nuclear warheads. The small 150 lbs warhead would send a neutron flux that would disable any other incoming warhead. Essentially, they would nuke their airspace to prevent another explosion a thousand times larger.
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TIL the movie "Baby Driver" was first imagined when director Edgar Wright heard the song "Bellbottoms" and imagined a getaway driver waiting for his crew to complete a bank heist. He tested the concept while directing the music video for "Blue Song" by Mint Royal in 2003, almost 15 years earlier.
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TIL that there is a surviving fantasy novel written in the 2nd century AD in Roman Syria that features explorers flying to the moon, a first encounter with aliens, interplanetary war between imperialistic celestial kingdoms, and the discovery of a continent across the ocean
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TIL that after their invasion of Vietnam, the Ming took Vietnamese captives back to China and among them, Ho Nguyen Trung, a firearms expert would go on to transform Chinese firearm technology and be venerated by the Chinese as the 'God of Firearms'[PDF]