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TIL that director Oliver Stone was high on mushrooms during the filming of Natural Born Killers.

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675J TIL the Yin Yang symbol was used on a Roman shield 700 years before it appeared in China.
QAKL TIL The last words of James Bond author Ian Fleming were an apology to his ambulance drivers for having inconvenienced them, saying “I am sorry to trouble you chaps. I don’t know how you get along so fast with the traffic on the roads these days.”
69GyQ TIL the South Korean movie Snowpiercer is one of the country's most expensive movies ever at $40 million USD
oBwJr TIL that by mass, polonium-210 is nearly 250,000 times more toxic than hydrogen cyanide
4rNo TIL the Bureau of Indian Affairs still sends bolts of cloth every year to New York Indian tribes as part of the debt owed from the Treaty of Canandaigua of 1794