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TIL that the Nazis made butter from coal
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TIL Ronnie Barrett, the designer of the .50 cal M82 sniper rifle, was a photographer with no background in manufacturing or engineering
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TIL that to tell how old sharks are, they count the rings in the vertebrae
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TIL Led Zeppelin's lead singer Robert Plant was horrifiied when his Honeydrippers ballad "Sea of Love" became his best-selling single. He was sure his career would be ruined, the industry seeing him as a love singer instead of a rock artist.
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TIL KGB defector Anatoli Golitsyn claimed in 1984 the USSR would intentionally collapse in order to lull the West into complacency.
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TIL when building the Golden Gate Bridge, the lead structural engineer insisted on the installation of a safety net even though its $130,000 cost was deemed exorbitant. Over the four years of its construction, the net saved 19 men, who named themselves the “Halfway to Hell Club.”