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TIL that Peter Jackson spent the last few years working on a special technology which revives old B&W WW1 footage and is portraying it in full colour in his new movie "They Shall Not Grow Old". Jackson used authentic WW1 uniform and real weaponry which was used back then to create this restoration.

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6E6Nw TIL of Henry “Box” Brown. A slave who escaped the slave state by mailing himself in a 3 foot X 2 foot X 8 inches deep box from Virginia to Philadelphia. The journey took 27 hours and he had a little water and some biscuits as food. Brown became a prolific Anti Slavery speaker
GY9oE Today I learned that the Original Olympic Flag was stolen by an American Diver on a dare then kept by him for 80 years.
lNwB TIL in 1999 a man with Intractable hiccups was cured after having sex with his wife
yQBwV TIL my wife and daughter have been making amazing YouTube content as armatures with not training. And each episode is better and better
D1KdY TIL the Second Congo War (1998-2003), relatively recent but almost unknown about in the West, has the worst death toll of any one conflict since the Second World War. 350,000 violent deaths, but the conflict is considered responsible for the deaths between 2,500,000 and 5,400,000 people.