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TIL: Sally Field has played both Tom Hanks’ love interest in Punchline and his mom in Forrest Gump.

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XDlr TIL that Americans buy so many wings, they’re now the most expensive part of the chicken
eQME TIL that in 1859, an American farmer in the San Juan Islands shot a pig who was eating his potatoes, but the pig happened to belong to a British colonist. In the ensuing confrontation, 461 Americans and 14 artillery faced 5 British warships with 70 cannons and 2140 men. The only casualty was the pig
m5ax TIL a soldier who fired his gun in celebration in NYC got sentanced to 4 - 12 Years For Manslaughter after turning himself in after the stray bullet killed a mother in Queens.
LkJ0r TIL that the Grinch is green because Chuck Jones (the director of the TV special) rented a car that he thought was a very ugly shade of green. The Grinch is black and white in the original book.
EONX TIL Philo T. Farnsworth, the creator of the television, hated his invention until he saw the moon landing broadcasted on it in 1969.