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TIL that production on 2014 biblical epic film Noah was delayed due to ‘heavy rain and flooding’ on location from Hurricane Sandy

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ANGla TIL that Kathy Sullivan, the first American woman to space walk, became in June 2020 the only person to have visited both space and the deepest place on Earth, the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench.
9o9Q TIL of “Gish Gallop”, a fallacious debate tactic of drowning your opponent in a flood of individually-weak arguments, that the opponent cannot possibly answer every falsehood in real time. It was named after “Duane Gish”, a prominent member of the creationist movement.
JD44 TIL that most Hungarians must bribe their medical staff in order to get better treatment
X0eMP TIL Olympic medalist Eugène Balme, who won a bronze medal in men's shooting, committed suicide by shooting himself.
l779B TIL of the Wallstreet bombing of 1920 that killed more than 30 people and injuring more than 300. A driver stopped the animal and it's load near the U.S Assay Office in the heart of Wallstreet and disappeared into the crowd. Within Minutes exploded into a hail of metal fragments and remains unsolved