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TIL: Agent Orange was produced by Uniroyal Canada in Elmira, Ont., a small farming community just outside Waterloo.

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kONDB TIL the last remaining vessel of the German Imperial Navy is a passenger ferry which is still sailing around Lake Tanganyika. She was built in 1913, was converted into a warship for WWI, was scuttled in 1916, and then raised and salvaged in 1924 before being returned to service in 1927.
gRwb TIL George RR Martin said that Game of Thrones characters die because ‘it has to be done’ and that it’s dishonest not to show how war kills heroes as easily as minor characters
dewB TIL That despite rumors and debate Michael Jackson actually did voice Mental Patient Leon Kompowksi in The Simpsons. He is credited under a pseudonym.
0MpM TIL: Exactly 53 years ago today, the USA used a drugged black bear named “Yogi” to test the first fighter pilot ejection seat at supersonic speeds.
yW7v TIL Danny Devito helped produce Pulp Fiction and Gattacca