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5AxP TIL that Chicago’s gangs kept crack out of the city for much of the 1980’s, because they feared it would lead to small-time dealers challenging their control of the drug trade
9BB6 TIL there is a Russian adaptation of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, titled It’s Always Sunny in Moscow where a group of friends own a bar in Moscow called Philadelphia
e0E8n TIL Jurgen Prochnow was considered to play the title role in 'The Terminator.' He also played Arnold Schwarzenegger in a movie about that actor's time as Governor of California.
6RP8 TIL that during WW2 two polish doctors saved the lives of 8,000 Jews by faking a typhus epidemic that stopped the Nazis entering their town.
AK4d TIL Disneyland employees planted an entire forest shaped like Mickey Mouse’s head