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TIL that English's formal word for "you" was "you", while "thou" was used to express intimacy & familiarity

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1alj4 TIL about the heroism of Teddy Sheean, of the Australian navy. During WW2, his ship was torpedoed, and Japanese planes shot at survivors in the sea. Sheean strapped himself to an antiaircraft gun on the sinking ship and fired at the planes, downing at least one. He was still firing as he drowned.
OoN8Y TIL that Coca-Cola once helped NASA to design a nuclear bomb-powered rocket!
Lkep TIL the Soviet Tsar Bomba was so powerful it shattered windows 900 km away
78EVO TIL Lego used dust from a 4.5 billion year old meteorite to 3D print bricks.
KOLL4 TIL when filming the original Willy Wonka, producers struggled teaching August Gloop how to pronounce “Fudge” which sounded more like “Vag”. Hear his pronunciation around 14.10.