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TIL a documentary TV crew's search for exotic animals off of Australia's coast instead turned up a real-life island castaway

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ne5jo TIL that SS Petriana (an oil tanker) was wrecked 200 meters (660 ft) off the Australian coast, but its crew were not allowed to land in Australia and forced to stay on a crowded tugboat for several days.
AD104 TIL The magic of Star Wars was largely thanks to one man, Roger Christian, who spent countless hours without getting paid, constructing the worlds on screen from piles of scrapped airplanes.
neWGW TIL that in film Halloween (1978) the interior shots of the two babysitter houses were taken in different (real) houses from those shown in exterior shots. They were shot in the house across the street from each house shown for the building exterior, making a total of four babysitter houses
8aG5P TIL at its height, the British East India Company had a private military force twice the size of the actual British Army.
VMoWG TIL par-cooking sweet potatoes in water between 135 and 170°F (57 and 77°C) activates an enzyme that converts their starch into Maltese. Making them extra sweet