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TIL Alan Rickman staunchly defended Kevin Costner’s much criticized accent in Robin Hood, stating that 20th-century colloquial American was a lot closer to 12th-century Anglo-Saxon than modern British English.

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ZWGY TIL in 2000, a Wild Turkey whiskey storage facility caught fire, spilling 17,000 barrels of flaming whiskey into the surrounding woods, catching them ablaze. Twenty percent of the whiskey flowed into the Kentucky River, disrupting its oxygen supply, killing 228,000 fish along 66 miles of the river.
jNjOa TIL that the Old Testament says farmers should leave the edges of their fields unharvested for the poor and traveling foreigners to eat
4Dva TIL that in California and 13 other states, if injured by a drug dealer, the victim of harm and their employer may sue the drug dealer for the costs of medical rehabilitation and treatment.
D7yJ TIL that it’s common during TV showings of “Groundhog Day” to repeat the same six commercials for each ad break (referencing the movie’s phenomenon)
yQQKp TIL there is more habitant in the Greater Tokyo Area than in the entire Canada