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TIL that multiple cast and crew members were struck by lightning during the filming of The Passion of the Christ, including the actor who played Jesus.

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J1Jo1 TIL that at least some of the Findus ads done by Orson Welles - as documented in the "Frozen Peas outtakes - are available online
KOBpw TIL 18 and 19 year olds are technically teenagers
7r5vP TIL that the worst ship accident in all of history happened 255 BC when a roman fleet of 464 warships got into a storm befor Sicily. 100.000 men were lost.
LkYvv TIL George Orwell's 1984 was heavily inspired in terms of themes and plot by Russian Yevgeny Zamyatin's 'We', an anti-utopian book which Orwell has stated had a great impact on him. The book was written 26 years before Orwell's 1984 but looks critical acclaim it deserves.
VMDMB TIL a BBC analysis of 19 chocolate products between 2014 and 2018, revealed that 18 of them had shrunk in size. The worst hit by ‘shrinkflation’ in the study was a four-pack of Snickers, which reduced by 28.1%, from 232g to 167g