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TIL Danny DeVito played a huge part in getting Pulp Fiction made, including shopping the script around to dozens of studios after Tristar passed on it for being "too violent".

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xEZ1 TIL that Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserve of any country in the world. However, it is only fifth among the OPEC in oil production.
aEn0 TIL Adolph Malan, a South African flying ace, led the No. 74 Squadron RAF during the battle of Briton, known for sending bomber pilots home with dead crews as a warning to other German crews. When he returned home, he considered apartheid a Nazi ideal, and got involved in anti-apartheid movements.
E1PKx TIL that when EEG was used to measure brain activity of a woman with multiple personality disorder there was no brain activity linked to sight whenever one of her blind 'alters' was in control (although her eyes were open), but that normal activity returned to the area when a sighted alter took over
Z894Q TIL That a Diamond studded golden Owl was buried somewhere in France in 1993. There's a book of riddles leading to its location, but it still hasn't been found. Oh, and there a 1,000,000 franc prize for the person who finds it.
VadD TIL in 1953 that Austrian Inge Sargent married a Prince from Burma (Myanmar), but he didn’t tell her he was a Prince until they sailed back to Burma and were greeted at the docks by hundreds of well-wishers.