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Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator advanced a stirring condemnation of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, fascism, antisemitism, and the Nazis. According to a later documentary, Chaplin sent the film to Hitler and an eyewitness confirmed he saw it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Dictator …https://twitter.com/presroi/status/1128712098232578049 …

In between sinking and being rescued, Indianapolis' crewmen faced exposure, dehydration, saltwater poisoning, and shark attacks, in addition to having few lifeboats and almost no food or water. Only 316 survived the ordeal.

About 890 crewmen survived the sinking, but the US Navy was not aware of the catastrophe until days later, when survivors were spotted in the open ocean by a routine patrol flight.

Lumpy lobes of mammatus clouds sometimes attach to the bottom of other clouds. True to their ominous appearance, mammatus clouds are often harbingers of a coming storm or other extreme weather system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammatus_cloud …

Near the end of WWII, the Japanese submarine I-58 torpedoed and sank the American cruiser Indianapolis after it completed a top-secret high-speed trip to deliver parts of the first atomic bomb used in combat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_(CA-35) …https://twitter.com/thorazos/status/1128718587789807617 …

Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' most famous work was written for his dying father. It has no title, but two lines appear as refrains throughout the piece: - "Do not go gentle into that good night" - "Rage, rage against the dying of the light" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Thomas …https://twitter.com/Zyly42/status/1128710500559261696 …

What's your favorite movie speech of all time?

In 2007, the Ghost pepper was certified as the world's hottest chili pepper, 400 times hotter than Tabasco sauce. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhut_jolokia …

The smallest black hole that can be formed by natural processes at the current stage of the universe has over twice the mass of the Sun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghettification#Inside_or_outside_the_event_horizon …https://twitter.com/CodecLeaper/status/1128446545840492544 …

Everybody dies in the least satisfying way. The end.https://twitter.com/DavidRCarroll/status/1128431371360272385 …

TIL explaining how fax machines work in under 280 characters is quite hard

The early fax machine worked by optical scanning of a document on a drum. Reflected light was used to control the modulator, essentially translating light to sound, which would be transmitted by phone, reconverted to light, and printed as an image. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax#Telephone_transmission …https://twitter.com/GOODONEDAVE/status/1128423708056535040 …

"Yep, sounds about right." - everyone who's seen this anime

Right after his work on Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, director Hideaki Anno fell into a deep depression that lasted four years. According to him, the plot of Neon Genesis Evangelion reflects those four years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion …https://twitter.com/Gine5MM/status/1128354542842777600 …

(Two shark facts in a row! How dare I?!)

Whitetip reef sharks hunt primarily at night, then spend their days lying motionless on the ocean floor or in caves. Over the course of a year they could move as little as 3 km (1.9 mi). They can survive up to six weeks without food. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitetip_reef_shark …https://twitter.com/FrameshiftShark/status/1128355365882662914 …

The great white shark has no known natural predators besides, occasionally, the killer whale. Like all other species of shark, they have an extra sense that enables them to detect the electromagnetic field emitted by animals as they move. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_white_shark …https://twitter.com/lilyruby2000/status/1128353758478524417 …

Send me a picture of one of your favorite things and I'll share a fact about it

The Great Fire of Pittsburgh occurred on April 10, 1845, destroying a third of the city and causing between $6 million and $12 million in damage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_Pittsburgh …