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TIL that the FBI assigned a team to Sacha Baron Cohen during the filming of Borat due to reports of a “Middle eastern man traveling the midwest in an ice cream truck.”

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VBMPZ TIL about Jane Kendeigh. She was a US Navy Flight Nurse, a specialist trained in aeromedical evacuation, survival, and evacuating patients from downed aircraft. She was the first nurse to land in both Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
jNN0n TIL a director of the movie 'Airplane!' spent $60,000 on 3 horses over ~4 years for a joke; "All Pink", "Ol Pink", and "Awl Pink". He instructed the jockey not to win, but to run as close to the inside rail as possible so the track announcer would have to call "...and it's All Pink on the inside!"
KnxE TIL Kid Rock grew up in a 1.3 million dollar estate and his millionaire father owned multiple car dealerships
bOR0 TIL that all of the 90’s Disney movies are from a period called the Disney Renaissance, which was considered to have started with The Little Mermaid(1989), and ended with Tarzan(1999), wherein Disney made $3.9 billion dollars worldwide.
gMvWy TIL Disney's Epcot Italy imports water from Pennsylvania to use in their pizza because PA water shares much of the same qualities found in Naples and it keeps it as authentic as possible