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TIL Kansas is actually flatter than a pancake

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dDwGr TIL: The 1928 movie 'Noah's Ark'. While filming of the flood scene, 600,000 gallons of water was dropped on the set without warning the actors, so their reactions and fear on film were real. Three people drowned, one had a leg amputated, and many suffered broken limbs and other serious injuries.
p8dJQ TIL Chinese goverment banned Taylor Swift's merchandise during her 1989 tour, because the reference to that year conjured images of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest. Also, Swift's initials. T. S., printed on some of her merch, happen to be initials for Tiananmen Square
69MgZ TIL about Reasonable Blackman, an African silk merchant in 16th century London that was one of the first people of African Heiritage to own a business in London
jNVPM TIL the reason Samuel L Jackson asked for a purple lightsaber was so that he could find himself on-screen in the Battle of Geonosis (Attack of the Clones) among the dozens of other Jedi.
Agrg TIL that South Africa was largely responsible for the global prohibition of Marijuana in 1925, based on one British doctors racist opinion from 1908 of how it affected Hindu laborers.