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TIL Robert Downey Jr. pissed in jars and left them lying around the set of “Zodiac” to protest not having enough time to go to his trailer and relax.

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v1wXj TIL of the ‘Mass-Observation Diarists’ who were hundreds of volunteers in the U.K. during WWII who made regular diary entries. They wrote about the intimate details of their lives as well as their thoughts and feelings about the world around them. The result was an intimate portrait of British life.
W7N44 TIL The song "Mele Kalikimaka" was written in 1949, 10 years before Hawaii became a US state
Q08d TIL THAT UNTIL RECENTLY THE NAVY COMMUNICATED IN ALL CAPS
P1LlZ TIL the UN has each decade's international focus and concerns predecided.