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TIL Cool Runnings was originally intended as a serious and heavy sports movie involving life in the Kingston slums. Its first title was Blue Maaga.

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9YErr TIL that Trader Joe’s is owned by the Aldi Group.
X6yr TIL George Takai was in a Japanese Internment Camp during WWII.
Orn7 TIL that the London Bridge in Lake Havasu, Arizona is the same bridge that spanned the Thames river in London, England, relocated in 1968.
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