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e00JJ TIL that during the summer of 1968 during which philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre was arrested for civil disobedience, President Charles de Gaulle intervened and pardoned him, commenting that "you don't arrest Voltaire".
Zr7G TIL about Marcus Garvey, a political leader who died from a stroke after reading an obituary of himself that was mistakenly published in a newspaper
WxrB TIL that in the novel Around the World in Eighty Days, not once do they travel by hot-air balloon. In fact, the text dismisses the idea as “highly risky and, in any case, impossible.”
ZBPR TIL during the filming of The Hunger Games, Jennifer Lawrence would purposely eat foods with garlic or tuna fish before any kissing scenes between her and Liam Hemsworth
D1app TIL that the filling between the wafers in Kit-Kats is made from other mashed up Kit-Kats that didn't get past the quality assurance due to minor imperfections