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TIL the cast of Starship Troopers agreed to do the co-ed shower scene only if director Paul Verhoeven agreed to direct the scene naked, which he did.

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WkObd TIL that the US gave the Soviet Union 44,000 jeeps, 375,883 trucks, 8,071 tractors, 12,700 tanks, 1,541,590 blankets, and 331,066 liters of Alcohol for the war effort against the Nazis, and $500 billion in financial recovery to European countries.
BrwOx TIL Basketball was invented in 1891 by James Naismith a Canadian Physical Education Instructor in Springfield.
woLLo TIL that JP Morgan suffered from rosacea and consequently, rhinopehyma in his old age, which made his nose huge, deformed, and red.
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