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TIL that the original proposal for the plot of the movie Anchorman was about news anchors trying to escape a mountaintop plane crash, while being stalked and killed by orangutans wielding ninja stars.

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xVX1k TIL in 1966 the US explored dropping a nuclear bomb on Hanoi to end the Vietnam War. One of the biggest concerns by the US was that protests would force Japan to close US military facilities in its country.
WkVLo TIL Sperm Whales in Alaskan waters steal fish from fishing lines by tracking the noise from boats' motors. This feeding behaviour is called depredation and experts think it is learned by the whales.
A15d TIL Most of the money George Clooney makes off his Nespresso commercials, he spends on a satellite that surveils over the border of North and South Sudan to keep an eye on criminal and dictator Omar al-Bashir to track his vicious army in an attempt to warn civilians before attacks occur
V4M4 TIL - That in the Jackie Chan Adventures, Jackie Chan’s voice was actually done by another actor, James Sie.
yV8pa TIL due to the rising popularity of jeans in the 1960s, one Texas legislator tried to have jeans declared the “official state costume” in 1977. His idea was ignored.