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TIL the story of the film “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” was improvised in a meeting. After the Italian director had a meeting with American movie executives, they asked him what film he had in mind, and in the span of a couple minutes, they quickly improvised the whole entire story of the film.

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xXJB TIL that during the Nazi occupation of Greece, the mayor of the island of Zakynthos was ordered to make a list with the names of all Jews on the island. The list handed over to the Nazis contained two names: the mayor’s and the islands Bishop. All Zakynthos Jews survived the Holocaust.
ZWo TIL that Fred Perry, the last British Wimbledon men’s champion, also won the Table Tennis Championship, the only tennis player to ever do so.
R7ME1 TIL of Euthyphro dilemma, found in Plato's dialogue Euthyphro, in which Socrates asks Euthyphro question: "Is what is morally good commanded by God because it is morally good, or is it morally good because it is commanded by God?"
mx0vx TIL that the American-produced, 1964 stop-motion Christmas television classic "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" was filmed in Tokyo and voiced primarily by Canadian actors. It has aired at least annually in America since 1964, making it the longest continuously running Christmas TV special in history
GY95j TIL Theodore Roosevelt as a child, watched Lincoln’s funeral procession pass by his house. His admiration for Abe was reinforced later in life when he met John Hay, who was Abe’s secretary. Hay gifted a ring that contained Lincoln’s hair to Teddy. Teddy then wore the ring on his inauguration day.