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TIL James Cameron has long had a fascination with shipwrecks & Titanic was "the Mt Everest of shipwrecks." After an IMAX film used footage of the Titanic wreck, he then sought Hollywood funding for his own dive. "not because I particularly wanted to make the film" "I wanted to dive to the shipwreck"

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rRZ6d TIL on February 5, 1958, two military airplanes colided during a training mission, resulting in a Mk 15 nuclear bomb being lost somewhere off the coast of Tybee Island, Georgia near Savannah.
R5LAa TIL Because tungsten and gold have almost identical weights, fake gold bars and coins made from tungsten cannot be identified by the usual method of density testing, and ultrasound has to be used instead.
6Emb8 TIL that Chimpanzees, Elephants, and Magpies all mourn their dead and feel some sort of grief.
R5R7Q TIL; That Peter Jackson director of Lord of the Rings - Built an entire movieset replica of Frodo baggins hobbit hole house "bag-end" underneath his new zealand mansion, and you get there via a secret wine cellar tunnel; Not only that, but Danny Divito also visits him regularly to hang out there.
e0oDJ TIL DoorDash was forced to honor its own arbitration clause after over 5,000 drivers took the company to arbitration, and costed it $12 million just in filing fees.