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TIL Around 5,300 kids were killed at school due to the 2008 earthquake in China

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XEP6P TIL the grisly scene in Pulp Fiction where Travolta jams a needle into Uma Thurman's chest to try to revive her from her overdose was actually filmed backwards.
N7oQ1 TIL after seeing how good the costume was for Ludwig van Beethoven in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Fashion historian Hilary Davidson created the 'Bill & Ted test' as a benchmark by which to judge other Regency movies by.
oBo4r TIL that Germany funded the 1917 communist revolution in Russian (Lenin and the Bolsheviks) to bring down the Russian monarchy it was at war with. Only for Lenin to attempt to fund a communist revolution in Germany later.
loOya TIL that teddy bears exist because "Teddy" Roosevelt refused to kill a real bear
PYB9e TIL during the filming of The Hunt for Red October (1990), while doing research aboard the fast attack sub Salt Lake City, actor Scott Glenn was treated with equal rank of her captain on the orders of the then Commander Thomas Fargo.