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TIL that Normandy could have been lined with tanks on D-Day if Hitler wasn’t asleep.

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E16Dd TIL in the early days of drugstore ice cream counters and soda shops, medicine such as cocaine and heroin were added to drinks at the customers discretion. The sweet flavors helped cover up the bitter taste of the medicine.
xVMlb TIL When Monty Python and the Holy Grail screened at the Cannes Film Festival, firefighters came in and made everyone in the cinema go outside as there was a bomb scare. As the projector stopped the audience roared with laughter, thinking it all part of this movie.
r8M1 TIL the dog who played Air Bud was also Comet on Full House
N7NbP TIL that residential dishwashers have a filter that needs to be cleaned. I don’t know how this escaped me until now...especially considering that I’ve cleaned many a commercial dishwasher filter.
4Db5 TIL Bill Murrays proton pack was 40lbs heavier than the rest of the cast on Ghost Busters because they believed he was funnier when agitated