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TIL that to prepare for his role as Kyle Reese in the 1984 film The Terminator, Michael Biehn studied the Polish Resistance Movement of WW2.

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6ExDX TIL Winston Churchill was in New York on Black Friday, the crash of 1929, having invested (and lost) the royalties for a book he was writing. He wrote, "I expected to see pandemonium, but the spectacle that met my eyes was one of surprising calm and orderliness."
j619E Today I learned that English is not the official language of the USA, only the most commonly used language.
dBVd TIL Sean Bean often gets fan mail intended for Rowan Atkinson, who portrayed Mr. Bean.
p8074 TIL : Belgrade (capital city of Serbia) has one of the greatest strategic positions, in fact so big, that there were 115 battles for it and it was destroyed about 40 times.
ea64 TIL that “Teen Spirit” was a real deodorant - one of Kurt Cobain’s friends spray painted “Kurt Smells Like Teen Spirit” on his wall because Kurt’s then-girlfriend wore Teen Spirit, which led to the title of the 1991 Nirvana hit song.