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today i learned that a coin flip isn't 50/50 but 51/49

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vQm4 TIL that to keep the paparazzi away during the filming of Return of the Jedi, George Lucas claimed that he was filming a horror movie called “Blue Harvest”
Z855B TIL of Hans Rott, a composer that went into an insane asylum after pulling a gun on a train because he thought Johannes Brahms loaded the car with dynamite. Although he died young, Rott wrote a symphony (Symphony in E) that Gustav Mahler plagiarized in his own first two symphonies.
YKZW TIL millionaire Michael O'Leary, CEO of airline Ryanair, has his own taxicab company with just one cab so he can legally use the bus lanes and avoid traffic jams
1M94 TIL the story of Abraham Bolden, a former Secret Service agent who testified to the Warren Commission about a secret Chicago assassination plot against JFK. Shortly thereafter, he was arraigned on federal charges and jailed for six years.
wLR18 TIL that there are no horror movies in China. They don't have a rating system so "you must make movies that a five year old can watch without feeling scared."