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TIL Wizard of Oz's dream plot was added because writers thought audiences are too sophisticated to accept Oz as straight-ahead fantasy.

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W7rZB TIL about Enhanced Games, an Olympics-style event where performance enhancing drugs aren't banned or tested, but actively encouraged.
dDr7 TIL that Jack Gleeson’s portrayal of Joffrey Baratheon is influenced by Joaquin Phoenix’s performance in Gladiator
b67yZ TIL that the Bay of Fundy has the highest tidal range in the world. In one 12-hour tidal cycle, about 100 billion tons of water flows in and out of the bay, which is twice as much as the combined total flow of all the rivers of the world over the same period.
kJ054 TIL during the cold war NATO conducted an experiment to find the best way to shot down helicopters with their jets, to everyone surprise helicopters proved to be a formidable foe to Jets and managed to get up to a 5-to-1 kill ratio against Jets in close combat.
a87WA TIL of Vitalis of Gaza, a monk who paid prostitutes his daily wages to dissuade them from the profession. The women he served later carried him to his grave, processing him with candles and lanterns. The Catholic Church venerates him as the Patron Saint of Prostitutes and Day Laborers.