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TIL that Americans threw $8.5m worth of silver coins into the sea before the fall of the Philippines. American and Filipino POW divers were coerced by the Japanese to recover it but they sabotaged the operation by secretly appropriating some portions of the haul to fund the Philippine Resistance.

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vWlB TIL that the first reported UFO sighting took place in the 15th century BC, in Ancient Egypt.
jbyN TIL Blackbeard’s flagship the Queen Anne’s Revenge was found in 1996. There’s a conservation project to bring it to the surface.
0d4X1 TIL that in 1948, a U.S. Air Force meteorologist suggested testing nuclear weapons on the East Coast but was rejected. Instead, the weapons were tested in the West and exposed millions of Americans to fallout.
epl7E TIL that it is a regular hazard of the barber industry to get hair splinters. Cut hair is apparently very sharp and can worm its way into your flesh.
nWa8W TIL that the world's first full-length feature film was 'The Story of the Kelly Gang', made in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1906