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Titanic's ocean scenes were shot in a tank built just for the film. No existing studio pool was large enough, so a new facility was constructed on the coast of Mexico specifically to hold the ship set and film its sinking.
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Nokia started out making paper, not phones. Founded in 1865 as a wood pulp mill on a river in Finland, the company spent decades in paper and rubber before it ever touched telecommunications.
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Shakespeare gets credit for hundreds of English words with no earlier trace. Dictionaries date words and phrases like "eyeball" and "bedroom" to his plays simply because no earlier written use of them survives — evidence of how well his work was preserved, not necessarily proof he coined them himself.
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Bananas are mildly radioactive. Their potassium content includes a small amount of potassium-40, a naturally radioactive isotope — the effect is so minor that scientists use the "banana equivalent dose" as a casual way to explain radiation exposure.
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Australia once deployed its army against emus — and lost. In 1932, soldiers armed with machine guns were sent to cull emus damaging Western Australian farmland. Weeks later, the operation was called off after the birds proved too fast and scattered to make a dent.
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The most remote place in the ocean is closer to space than to land. Point Nemo sits roughly 2,700 km from the nearest coastline — far enough that the closest humans are often the astronauts passing overhead on the International Space Station, about 400 km up.
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