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TIL because the crew of Dr Strangelove was denied access to a B-52 bomber, they made a replica of the cockpit by comparing those of a B-29 with a single photo of the B-52's cockpit. It turned out to be so accurate that Kubrick began to worry about a FBI investigation into how they got it so close.

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9O7 TIL Seth Rogan wrote and has begun filming a movie in which all the actors play themselves, set during a party in the midst of the apocalypse…and Emma Watson is in it.
YJxW TIL at the height of the Irish Potato Famine in 1847, almost 4,000 ships carried food from Ireland to England and Scotland while 400,000 Irish died of starvation and related diseases. The same year, a Native American tribe sent $710 to help ease the suffering.
Ge7j TIL that the Golden State Fence Company, hired to build part of the US-Mexico border wall, was fined US$5M for hiring illegal immigrant workers.
rRoZW TIL The Well Yes But Actually No meme comes from a misquoted line from the movie So You Want to Be a Pirate. The actual line said in the scene pictured by the meme is "good guess, but actually no" which is often heard as "well yes, but actually no" due to pronunciation.
Ooge1 TIL $3.8 billion paid in lawsuits and claims over sex abuse allegations in Catholic Church since 1980s.