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TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger directed a TV Christmas movie in 1992, called ‘Christmas in Connecticut’.

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wLoR7 TIL that plans for the death and funeral of Queen Elizabeth II have been extensively prepared by most British government and media organizations since the 1960s. The codename is Operation London Bridge.
EgxAw TIL cats are attracted to most plants in the "Mint" family, not just Catnip! This includes Menthol found in many rubs and ointments (but it can be poisonous).
9wBDr TIL the writer of the hymn Lord of the Dance was written by a man who kept a statue of the Hindu god Shiva on his desk.
b9pxQ TIL to gaslight someone, meaning to make one think they're going crazy, comes from the movie Gaslight (1944), where a husband tried to make his wife (Ingrid Bergman) think that very thing by dimming the gas lights in house and making her think she was imagining it.
R5Nk1 TIL about the Readymix logo geoglyph, a 3.2 km × 1.6 km (2.0 mi × 0.99 mi) logo carved into the ground in outback Australia in 1965. For a lone time of it was the largest such signage of its kind in the world.