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TIL I learned the CIA directly influences the production of movies and Hollywood since 1946

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rjn1 TIL Game of Thrones has the same budget ($10M/ep) as Friends ($10M/ep)
go5y TIL Joss Whedon was the reason Toy Story was greenlit…after he took 4 months to rewrite the entire script (scroll to part II)
worP6 TIL that in the 19th Century, Rudolf Lindt, of the famous Lindt chocolate family, accidentally invented the crucial step of "conching" chocolate – rolling the warm cocoa mass to make it smooth and reduce its acidity – by leaving a cocoa mass mixer running overnight.
p8yYp TIL The Brazilian Expeditionary Force landed in Italy on July 2, 1944, two years after Brazil declared war on the Axis. The BEF landed without weapons, and since there was no arrangement for barracks, the troops remained on the docks. This lack of planning caused controversy in the Brazilian media.
NXGxE TIL: 21 year old P.T. Barnum became a bit of a liberal celebrity after publishing an article excoriating a local church dignitary for the crime of “taking usury of an orphan boy." Which landed Barnum in jail for more than two months.