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TIL that hen filming the underwater scene in Alien Resurrection, Winona Ryder faced a challenge, as she nearly drowned as a kid. Instead of using a double, knowing it would be obvious, she faced her fear and filmed it, but suffered from anxiety later on

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5YmNP TIL of Steven Phillips, a man who spent 24 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. When he was released in 2008, he received $6 million in compensation. Then, his ex-wife, who divorced him while he was in prison, sued to get part of the compensation. She did not receive a penny.
oBkOR TIL that during WW2 the US fielded a unique 'Ghost Army' in order to deceive the Third Reich into over estimating the strength of the Allied forces. The Ghost Army consisted of 1,100 handpicked men and a number of phony inflatable tanks and weapons.
OoDPe TIL that to write the Beatles song "She's Leaving Home", Paul McCartney was inspired by a newspaper article about a missing girl named Melanie Coe. McCartney would later learn that he had met Coe before - he had chosen her as the winner of a competition on a game show he hosted three years prior.
OoQWR TIL the CEO of HSBC in Taiwan walked his lesbian employee down the aisle in 2017 after her parents refused to go to the wedding
kJ5y7 TIL that the Arctic Monkeys' song "I Wanna Be Yours" is based on the poem of the same name by John Cooper Clarke, which was originally published in 1982 on his album Zip Style Method. The song appears on the Arctic Monkeys' 2013 album AM.