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TIL famous actor James Dean only starred in 3 films before his death in 1955.

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j6dlp TIL about Yang Kyoungjong, a Korean soldier during WW2 that was conscripted to fight for Japan, was then captured and forced to fight by the Russians, and then again captured and forced to fight for the Germans at Normandy. He was then finally captured by the Allies and sent to the US.
oBaJL TIL The Charlie in the famous newspaper title "Charlie Hebdo" references Charlie Brown from the Peanuts cartoon. Hebdo is short for hebdomadaire, meaning weekly, in French
ANdQ4 TIL that Steven Spielberg spent his own personal time and money refilming the Ben Gardner jumpscare in JAWS in the pool of Editor Verna Fields. This was after production had already wrapped.
QW7L TIL a mother cow in a US dairy farm made a “Sophie’s Choice” - she hid 1 of her newly born twins and let the farmer took away the 2nd one in the hope of saving at least one of her babies. Both babies were slaughtered.
woKJY TIL that in 1994, a 17-year-old boy scout named David Hahn attempted to build a nuclear reactor in a backyard shed at his mother's house in Commerce Township, Michigan. The experiment emitted measurable radiation and the EPA eventually declared the property a Superfund cleanup site.