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TIL that the Germans used Churchill’s famous Tommy Gun portrait as Nazi propaganda

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JE6l TIL that in 1755, Oxford University burned a taxidermied Dodo bird, unaware that it was the last complete specimen in the world.
4XK5N TIL after President Harry S. Truman was rejected from West Point due to his poor eyesight (20/50 in the right eye and a legally-blind 20/400 in the left) he was able to pass the test and join the Missouri National Guard by memorizing the eye chart.
1agWO TIL Viking people held a yearly assembly, open to all citizens, where the people would discuss disputes and political decisions, precided by a lawspeaker who memorises the entire law code and has the power to demote and elect kings.
j4Rv TIL that when filming the movie Titanic they only built the port side of the ship. Scenes showing the starboard side were flipped in post production. As a result of this everything on the starboard side of the ship, from lettering to the buttons on costumes, had to be backwards during filming.
R5gx9 TIL that the origin of the English word ‘cat’ is coming from the Late Latin word cattus, cata, catta. “Cattus” was first used at the beginning of the 6th century and is derived from an Egyptian precursor of Coptic šau, “tomcat”.