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TIL that there are just 357 drive-in movie theaters left in America.

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Z8vMY TIL If King Charles IV’s baby had a penis it would have prevented the “100 Years War”. Charles had been dead for 2 months. The Gender Reveal was bad for France... a girl. Baby Blanch didn’t have the goods so France and England fought about it from 1337 to 1453.
R5bE7 TIL when the directors of Harold and Kumar (2004) took their movie to film producers, the producers said "we really love this movie", but wanted to change the main characters from Korean and Indian to "a White guy and a Black dude"
kOYrd TIL M&M's were created in 1941 to provide the military with chocolate that didn't melt. During WW2 M&M's were exclusively sold to the military.
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