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TIL Mike Tyson offered zookeeper $10,000 to punch a gorilla that was bullying other gorillas.

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xVXA0 TIL Jackie Chan's 'Rumble in the Bronx' is glaringly and hilariously not shot anywhere near NYC. In fact Chan stopped trying to disguise the Vancouver location altogether about half way thru the film saying people really only wanted to watch action and didn't care if there were mountains in NYC
Z8wp4 TIL a farmhouse in Gettysburg was used as field hospital. There was so much blood on the floor, that there is still dried blood between floorboards. When under a blacklight, large bloodstains are still visible
Z48R TIL that while in a spin, a pilot ejected from his plane only to watch his unmanned F-106 recover from the spin and land safely in a field.
0weJ1 TIL that after Disney acquired Miramax in 1993, the first film given the green-light was Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction
QvNE TIL The English town of Sandwich is 1.5 miles away from the village of Ham.