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TIL that Tim Burton was interested in making the film ‘Watchmen’ with Johnny Depp starring as The Comedian, but passed on the offer to make 'Sweeney Todd’ and 'Alice in Wonderland’.

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R55Q9 TIL "lemonade" is typically carbonated in the UK, Ireland, Central Europe, and Australia.
4oaJ TIL that in October of 1981, a soviet Whiskey class submarine ran aground on the south coast of Sweden. This incident became known as “Whiskey on the rocks”.
G7vN TIL “Baby Jessica” who fell down a well and was trapped for 58 hours found out about her own ordeal and rescue after watching an episode of Rescue 911.
ANGBa TIL In 1954, the CIA ordered Carcano rifle ammo for anti-communist forces. The leftover ammo and rifles were re-imported and sold wholesale to the public, including to Lee Harvey Oswald, who used them to assassinate JFK.
j69EM TIL that the average chocolate bar contains 30 insect fragments due to unavoidable contamination — in the US, the FDA sets limits to the numbers allowed per food item (in chocolate, max. 60 insect fragments and 1 rodent hair per 100g)