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TIL for the brutal Omaha Beach scene in ‘Saving Private Ryan’ Spielberg hired several dozen army amputees with prosthetic limbs so that he could have their arms and legs blown off in a more realistic fashion. More than $11 million was spent and 1,000 extras used for the infamous scene.

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bK8p TIL that Dean Koontz decided not to sue the filmmakers of High Tension for plagiarizing his book Intensity because he found the film to be so puerile, so disgusting, and so intellectually bankrupt he didn’t want the association with it that would come from a lawsuit.
mxX8P TIL that a Man in Florida shot neighbour's cat because it "looked at him like he owned the place".
4X6Ko TIL of a woman born with 3 fingers on her right hand. After a tragic accident, she lost her right hand and later developed a phantom limb...with 5 fingers, suggesting her brain "knew" what a hand was supposed to feel like.
b9ybN TIL that Pablo Picasso died in the 70s. All along I thought he was so ancient that he and da Vinci were homies or something.
VxGQ TIL that in 1943 the United States Supreme Court ruled in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette that government officials cannot force anyone to participate in patriotic rituals.