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TIL There is a Non-Fictional Book About Ebola Zaire, a Deadlier Form of Ebola So Terrifying, Stephen King Was Quoted As Saying “The first chapter of The Hot Zone is one of the most horrifying things I’ve read in my whole life–and then it gets worse"

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5wPp TIL The blood on set for Sweeney Todd was coloured orange so it rendered correctly on the desaturated color film used.
kJw0E TIL that Milton Hershey was booked on the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Titanic, but had a change of plans for business reasons and, instead, traveled on the German liner Amerika, which had an earlier departure date.
6EGoZ TIL of Witold Pilecki, Inmate 4859, who volunteered to be imprisoned in Auschwitz to collect intelligence and escape two and a half years later. He was executed by the Soviet puppet state in Poland in 1948.
GYvgG TIL that the "Cracked Bell of Trinity Church" in Ryde, England, died of a broken heart and wrote to a newspaper about it.
R5l59 TIL of the half-life of knowledge which pertains to the duration it takes for half of the knowledge within a specific field to become outdated or replaced.