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TIL of Guédelon Castle, a project in France to build a castle using medieval techniques, tools, and materials

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1Db8 TIL after the first edit of Star Wars came back as clunky and lackluster, Lucas spliced together a cut of World War II dogfights. The space battle in the final film is a frame for frame re-enactment of this. (1h41s)
N716 TIL There is an underwater breathing system other than SCUBA called CCUBA, and it doesn’t produce any bubbles.
d8kVK TIL David Bowie's Heroes was recorded with one microphone 22cm (9 inches) away from him, another one 6m (20 feet) away, and the last one 15m (50 feet) away, so that he'd have to adjust his tone in different parts of the song (in the 6 minute album version, link in comments)
VdXB TIL that in 1796, the United States signed the Treaty of Tripoli, including a clause stating that “the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”
VBmv8 TIL John Morales, the actor who voiced McGruff the Crime Dog, has been in jail for a decade. His legal troubles began in 2011.