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TIL Walt Disney designed emblems for WWII planes and submarines.

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kJW4e TIL of Australian Senator Bill Heffernan, who in 2014 felt that the new security arrangements at Parliament House were inadequate. To protest this, he smuggled in a fake pipe bomb and presented it at a Senate hearing as proof that the building was "no longer secure".
7rBQM TIL Actor Rainn Wilson is Baha'i and actively discusses his faith in interviews and online
4kMdN TIL the original Medal of Honor game (1999) - created by Steven Spielberg and credited with the popularisation of WW2 games, thus all the shooters that followed like BF, COD - was almost cancelled because of Columbine
wd6M TIL after a 10 year, $40m project, the Leaning Tower of Pisa stopped moving for the first time in its 800-year history. The tower is now expected to stay stable for at least 200 years.
D1Q6V TIL that one of the main engineers behind NASA's Challenger rocket, which exploded in 1986, revealed that after NASA would not heed his warnings against launching in the cold weather, he told his wife the night before the launch, "It's going to blow up."