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rNWpx TIL The Matrix defense is a legal defense based on the premise of the film franchise The Matrix. A defendant using this defense claims that they committed a crime because they believed that they were in a simulated world
R5051 TIL that as of 2023 Canadian government health guidelines now define drinking more than 2 alcoholic beverages per week as "moderate risk" drinking and more than 6 per week as "increasingly high risk" drinking
ZXVY TIL the reason many U.S army helicopters are named after native-American tribes is because the first U.S air force bases were located on native reserves.
mxKAv TIL Female Elephants Are Called Cows, and Their Babies Are Called Calves.
x6Ln5 TIL that after Terry Jones filmed the 1996 adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows" with live actors, the US distributor essentially ignored it. Eventually, Jones heard that the film was being shown in 1 US cinema; when he went there, he found out that it was a pornographic cinema.