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TIL - The military–entertainment complex is the cooperation between militaries and entertainment industries to their mutual benefit, especially in such fields as cinema, multimedia, virtual reality, and multisensory extended reality.

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R5mZ7 TIL Bruce Springsteen's famous song, 'Born in the U.S.A.', is actually a critique of the government's treatment of Vietnam War veterans
0w8lN TIL that Sitting Bull's remains were stolen from the Standing Rock Reservation, by his granddaughters, and buried in Mobridge SD. There a monument of Nancy Kicking Bear, a granddaughter of Sitting Bull, was erected.
woeNM TIL about William Dampier, a naturalist who used piracy as a means to explore the world. He was the first Englishman to explore parts of Australia, one of Charles Darwin's inspirations and introduced the words "barbecue", "avocado", "chopsticks", and "subspecies" into the English language.
d8Zdr TIL of the SS Pacific, a trans-Atlantic steamer that disappeared on a routine voyage between Liverpool and New York in 1856. In 1861, a message in a bottle released by a doomed passenger describing the ship sinking due to icebergs washed ashore in the Hebrides- solving the mystery.
yQegX TIL Sacha Baron Cohen left the Freddie Mercury biopic over creative differences with Queen; he was told Mercury died in the middle of the film. Impressed, he thought they meant a non-linear story structure like Pulp Fiction but realized the second half would be how the band “carried on.”