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TIL that directors Wes Craven and Sam Raimi played a game of one-upmanship by depicting each other’s movies humorously in their own films. Beginning in The Evil Dead (1981), and continuing on through A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) and Scream (1996).

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xVGKg TIL that in 1940, on the way to their invasion or Ardennes, France, the massive German army got into a major traffic jam. French reconnaissance pilots spotted it and reported it to French High Command who promptly said "that can't be true" and ignored it. An aerial attack could have ended the war
OogX TIL that two men set three records for Scrabble in one game. Highest points by one player (830), most points in one game (1,320) and most points for a single word (365).
KO4vR TIL when New Zealand crowd-sourced ideas for a new national flag, one of the most infamous designs was "Fire the Lazer", a flag with a silver fern and a kiwi shooting a laser out of its eyes.
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rk04 TIL when Mario Lemieux’s son Austin was born prematurely in 1996, the family spent a lot of time in the hospital with him, and found that older children there had no place to play. Guided by his wife’s Nathalie vision, they set up play rooms across hospitals in the US, opening the 29th one in 2014.