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TIL Kevin Smith’s Dogma is unavailable to stream or purchase digitally and is out of print on home media.

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El5p TIL: Top gear UK was chased out of an Argentinian village by Falklands war veterans throwing rocks
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wa51 TIL The selective admissions process at universities was originally designed during the early 20th century to discriminate against Jews
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Xde6 TIL that in 1915, scam artist Charles Hatfield convinced the town of San Diego that he could create rainfall using a secret mix of chemicals. The city offered to pay him $10,000 if he could end their drought, and the ‘result,’ a few days later, was the town’s worst flood of the 20th century.