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TIL the world’s fastest camera records at 4.4trillion frames per second at a resolution of 450x450 and is capable of recording individual photons.

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KOBP9 TIL that a peice of horse tack known as the 'Bearing Rein' was extreamly in the 18th and 19th century to keep horses heads up due to a fashion, they were often tightened til the point of discomfort for the horse, until a story about a horse was released in 1877 and bearing reins fell out of fashion
D1yaY TIL about Peter Siebold, the only person to survive a deadly spaceship disaster. He survived a fall from 50,000 ft, 30,000 of which in freefall, at a speed of Mach 1.
9YkW6 TIL that Daniel Day-Lewis was so convincing as a killer in "Gangs of New York," the mom of his 10 year old co-star for "There Will Be Blood" saw the movie, and didn't want her son acting alongside him anymore. The studio sent her "The Age of Innocence" to reassure her Day-Lewis wasn't actually bad.
9YMxD TIL After Russia made it virtually impossible for people to cross the Berlin Wall on foot, one group of East Germans crashed a stolen tank into the wall to get through to the other side.
xVZ5k TIL Saudi Arabia owns 15000 acres in California with water rights to the Colorado River so they can cheaply grow alfalfa to feed their cows