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TIL that Mel Brooks financed and produced the movie The Elephant Man, but didn't take any credit because he didn't want audiences mistaking it for a comedy.

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R5D96 TIL an Argentinian government official was once caught red-handed at 4AM hiding $7 million in cash at a convent with the aid of nuns (in their 80s)
XRbX TIL of the theory that in ‘Superman’ (1978), Superman doesn’t actually turn back time by litterally reversing the earth’s rotation. Instead, he himself travels to the past by flying faster than the speed of light, and the reversing earth is simply a visual metaphor for this.
4X68a TIL London house prices are 14.5 x average earnings making it the most unaffordable city in the world to buy a home
9wx5r TIL "Seven Nation Army" became a global sports anthem after a Belgian soccer team's fans heard it in a bar before a big game, sang it while they won, and adopted it as their unofficial team anthem; it spread to other European teams and came back to the US as a Penn State football anthem.
l79mK TIL Kamikaze Pilots were not involved with Pearl Harbor, only 1 Japanese pilot deliberately flew into a target after taking severe damage to their aircraft.