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TIL an airline once put 400 squirrels through a shredder

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LQyd TIL that in the interrogation scene of The Dark Knight, Heath Ledger wanted Christian Bale to beat him as hard as he could so he could get the real feeling of what was required from the scene.
pY0N4 TIL that the only place in the world where Japanese is an official language is Angaur, an island in Palau. Japan doesn’t have the de jure official language.
GAxWJ TIL that Zeno of Elea, a Greek philosopher famous for the paradoxes he established, was killed when even after being tortured he refused to divulge the names of his co-conspirators in a plot to overthrow a vicious tyrant
N7jaJ TIL In The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), at the end of the movie, Will Smith, who plays Chris Gardner, walks past the actual Chris Gardner whose life the movie is based on.
yVekw TIL All of the bases in DNA and RNA have now been found in meteorites