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TIL that Nicholas Cage invented his own acting style, known as “Nouveau Shamanic”. He plans on one day writing a book about the method.

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pmm4 TIL the “North Star” is actually a handful of stars orbiting each other
PYAlO TIL In 2003, a farmer carrying a syringe loaded with cow antibiotics was knocked down by one of his cows and was accidentally injected. He was transported to the hospital where they called Poison Control, who told him there were no known antidotes. He died less than an hour later.
oPJK TIL John Lithgow played the William Shatner role in the Twilight Zone remake of “Nightmare at 20,000 feet.” Years later when Shatner appears on 3rd Rock from the sun he says “It was a horrible flight! There was a man on the wing of the plane!”; Lithgow responds, “The same thing happened to me!”
0dyL TIL that in 1943, a German soldier refused to shoot down an American Soldier, and actually escorted him off of German grounds back to the North Sea.
9dZM TIL that the film ‘Waterloo’ had so many extras in the battle scene that the director was in command of the 7th largest army in the world