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TIL that Stanley Kubrick used over 450,000 feet or about 85 miles of film to shoot "A Clockwork Orange"

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x451 TIL that in 1985 the French President authorised a state-sponsored terror attack on New Zealand soil, killing a Dutch citizen.
Z95p TIL In America, due to the electoral college, you could get 22% of the popular vote and win the presidency
e0ylD TIL in 1911 there was a baseball team made up of death row inmates who had been told that as long as they kept wining games, their executions would be delayed.
W71ZY TIL as recently as the 1960s, information about bagels was not necessarily common knowledge. In 1960, The New York Times famously identified bagels for still-clueless readers as “an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis.”
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