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TIL The original script of Braveheart had the Irish fighting the Scottish, which was historically accurate. The script had to be changed because the Irish and Scottish extras refused to fight each other.

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YpmgB TIL that 1,000 Italian rockers simultaneously played Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly to impress the band and convince them to come to Cesena, Italy to play a concert. Dave Grohl was impressed by this effort and performed a full concert in Cesena for these 1,000 people 3 months later.
mxDoY TIL that all 11 films adapting Lemmy Caution, an American character written by a British writer in a series of English novels, are in Dutch or French.
BrW7d TIL Boeings own QA staff sued the company for deliberately using cheaper sub-standard parts.. and lost because the FAA gave Boeing a clean chit
Oo15g TIL men were violently robbed of their testicles in Chicago 1922
NXPrE TIL in 2011 the burial site of a "sorcerer" from the late Holocene was discovered near Adelaide in Australia