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TIL The musical Sweet Charity (and its film adaptation) are based on Fellini's 1957 Italian film Nights of Cabiria.

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4lLb TIL that Turkmenistan possesses the world’s fourth largest reserves of natural gas resources. Since 1993, citizens have received government-provided electricity, water and natural gas free of charge.
PYEEZ TIL: 25 million viewers switched from CBS to Fox’s ‘In Living Color’ during the halftime of Super Bowl XXVI. As a result, the Super Bowl has had high-profile entertainers ever since
EZ00 TIL the “fat Buddha” statue is not actually a representation of Gautama Buddha, but is in fact a Chinese deity known as Budai.
eXX4 TIL Keanu Reeves got the role for Neo in The Matrix because Will Smith turned it down in order or shoot Wild Wild West
D1waP TIL: The United States tested nuclear weapons in Micronesia and used their population as live guinea pigs to study the effects of long-term radiation exposure.