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TIL a girl threw a message in a bottle in the ocean and got a response from 10,000 miles away

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keL1 TIL the word crackpot came from poor English people who went crazy from drinking tea steeped in cracked ceramic pots that had lead cores.
grZM4 TIL that after Stalin had a stroke and his Blood Pressure raised to 210/120, doctors decided to apply leeches to his neck and face in an attempt to make it drop. Died 2 days later.
d8lgB TIL Steven Spielberg helped create the PG-13 film rating
d8MQB TIL that Bill Murray considers Groundhog Day probably the best work that he has done. Before that movie he was seen largely as a clown. After it, he was a complex actor with range.
KYoP6 TIL after “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” faced controversy for its depiction of India, Mola Ram actor Amrish Puri said: "I know we are sensitive about our cultural identity, but we do this to ourselves in our own films. It's only when some foreign directors do it that we start cribbing."