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TIL The source of the term "green room" has been lost to history.

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R7oe8 TIL American distributor of the movie Once Upon a Time in America shortened it to 139 minutes, without the director's involvement. That version was a critical and commercial flop in the US. Meanwhile, European Cut (229 mins) has remained as one of the best gangster movie ever by many critics
W76Y TIL At top speed the Bugatti Veyron will empty its 26 gallon tank in 12 minutes
Ook46 TIL the frontman to Powerman 5000 is the brother of Rob Zombie and was also on the original 90210.
KNWJ TIL of Michael Cicconetti, a judge in Ohio who uses what he calls “creative justice”. He sentences guilty defendants with unusual punishments, such as forcing a woman who abandoned her kittens to spent a winter night outdoors.
vP4Jr TIL A monument in Kyoto contains severed noses from 38000 Koreans and 30000 Chinese from a Japanese invasion in the 1590s. No Japanese textbook mentioned it until the 80s, after a publisher resisted pressure from the ministry of education to use a softer tone and praise the invasion leader Hideyoshi