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TIL That the production staff of the film 1917 (2019) had to put signs around one of the filming locations warning walkers in the area not to be alarmed at the artificial body parts strewn around.

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0wn65 TIL the lyricist for the theme song of the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon (Spider-Man! Spider-Man! Does whatever a spider can!) won three Academy Awards for Best Original Song and was nominated sixteen times for the award.
nbV9 TIL of “Mit brennender Sorge,” a papal letter secretly smuggled into Germany and read from every Catholic pulpit on Palm Sunday, 1937. It condemned the Reich Government and implied that everyone in Heaven was laughing at Hitler, a “prophet of nothingness”.
neE0b TIL Tom Dickson, the "Will it Blend?" guy, had his blender jar design ripped off by Vita-Mix. He took them to Federal court, won, and was eventually awarded $24M
BrxEL TIL that a Jewish prisoner escaped from Auschwitz in 1944 disguised as an SS guard
l7v7V TIL of a court in France which stopped a girl being named "Nutella" and forcibly renamed her to Ella in the absence of her parents. The Judge said that the name Nutella would "only lead to teasing or disparaging thoughts," a complaint not heard by her parents as they did not attend the hearing.