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TIL “Attack of the Clones” (2002) was the first Hollywood movie shot entirely on HD digital cameras

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6Eb0w TIL The military uses silly string to find trip wires around bombs and also add scrap metal to Humvees as "Hillbilly Armor".
xVmp1 TIL that it's "just deserts" not "just desserts". Besides meaning a sandy desert land, the noun form of 'desert' also means "a deserved reward or punishment".
ZQbY TIL during the Crusades, at the siege of Acre, the Templar Grandmaster dropped his sword and walked away from the walls, confusing his men. ‘I’m not running away’, he said 'I am dead. Here is the blow’. He raised his arm to show an arrow penetrating his mail under his armpit, mortally wounding him.
8akZZ TIL that old physics textbooks are wrong about the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse. It wasn't due to resonance, but aeroelastic flutter
XELRE TIL Emperor Meiji of Japan (1852-1912) was the last Japanese emperor to wear a full beard