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TIL that the prop money made for Rush Hour 2 was so realistic some crew members attempted to spend it. The money - which, if real, would be about $1 trillion - was then confiscated and destroyed by the FBI.

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nNYd TIL David Lunt was shot through the skull and brain by a revolver and not only lived after the shot, but also felt no pain from it. He died 67 days later and his autopsy revealed that the gunshot was what killed him. Coroners still don’t know how Lunt survived for so long and felt no pain.
9gDX TIL Quake III Arena, needing to calculate x^(-½) quickly, used a piece of code so strange, the developers commented the code with “evil floating point bit level hacking” and “what the fuck?”
E1Wgo TIL that the Empire State Building's antenna was originally designed to be a dock for zepplin airships. It was used only once in September 1931 and abandoned entirely after the Hindenburg incident.
kJYR1 TIL Winston Churchill opposed the American use of napalm during the Korean war but still allowed Americans to publish claims of British support for American napalm attacks.
ZovR TIL 8,900 children in the USA receive amputations each year due to lawn mower accidents