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TIL Televangelist Pat Robinson first popularized the New World Order Conspiracy theory in his 1991 book "The New World Order"

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QmXa TIL that the scene in Terminator 2: Judgement Day where a helicopter flies under an overpass was not CGI, it was stunt performed by helicopter pilot Chuck Tamburro. The stunt was so dangerous that the film crew refused to film it, so James Cameron had to film the sequence himself.
Z8N84 TIL just by simply reducing the margins of office paper from 1" to 0.75" would result in upwards of 6 million trees saved per year.
OEQe TIL Princess Diana used to go to bars with Freddy Mercury dressed as a man so she wouldn’t be recognized.
e0Mr4 TIL There's a French war song, the "Song of the Onion" which goes "I love the onion when it's fried with oil, I love the onion when it's good [...] But no onions for the Austrians." which originated when Napoleon commended his soldiers for eating onions before the Battle of Marengo.
oBnP8 TIL Most cities hit during the 2011 tsunami in Japan [which caused the Fukushima disaster] were built well below hundreds of ancient stone markers warning not to build below that level