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TIL the 1979 film Caligula, known for its explicit content, is the only feature film produced by the men's magazine Penthouse, hiring Penthouse Pets as extras in unsimulated sex scenes. A critical failure upon release, it is one of the few films critic Roger Ebert walked out of.

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d80pE Today I learned that the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out because a Japanese soldier ditched during a drill to use the bathroom. When they couldn't find him, they assumed that he was kidnapped by a nearby Chinese Town. That led to an armed conflict that led to a full-scale war that lasted 8 years.
mW1E TIL Hans Island is a disputed territory between Canada and Denmark. When the Danish visit, they leave a bottle of Schnapps for the Canadians. When the Canadians visit, they leave a bottle of Canadian Club for the Danish
6rZQ TIL in 2013 some people posing as cops and robbing citizens in Detroit turned out to be cops going around robbing citizens in Detroit.
QJlwd TIL of Robert Morris, signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution - he "financed the final years" of the American Revolution," turned down an appointment as first Treasury Secretary and recommended Alexander Hamilton, and subsequently served time in debtors' prison.
JKWj TIL for over a decade teachers and principals in Atlanta erased wrong answers and filled in the right ones in students’ tests. At one school, the faculty held weekend pizza parties to correct answers before turning them in. Over the course of a single year, scores at the school jumped 45 percent.