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TIL that the scene with Morgan Freeman throwing a baseball in ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ took over nine hours to shoot. Freeman didn’t complain once throughout the entire ordeal, showed up the next day with his arm in a sling, and continued shooting.

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E1OXw TIL there's only 8 species of bears in the world: brown bears, Asian black bears, American black bears, sun bears, sloth bears, spectacled bears, polar bears, and giant pandas.
mxaWR TIL that beloved children's book author E.B. White was also co-author of a notable American English writing style guide.
GAep5 TIL that in 1958, the U.S. government accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on a family's backyard in Mars Bluff, South Carolina. The bomb’s nuclear core was not installed, so it didn’t cause a nuclear explosion, but the conventional explosives detonated, leaving a massive crater and damaging the home
5YDAn TIL that Samuel Colt financed his invention and development of the revolver handgun by performing laughing gas demonstrations across the United States and Canada.
m54Y TIL firefighters used to dip their beards in water and breathe through the wet hairs clenched between their teeth before breathing apparatuses were invented.