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TIL Stephen Colbert, Donald Glover, Aubrey Plaza, Zachary Galifianakis, and Kevin Hart were all rejected by Saturday Night Live

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E7Np TIL that one of King Tut’s dagger blades is made of a meteorite from outer space.
lo9l7 TIL about the WW2 battle between the destroyer USS Borie and U-405, in which the two ships collided and became locked together. The crews had to resort to fighting at close range, with small arms and anything they could get their hands on. One German sailor was even killed by a thrown sheath knife.
LWbV TIL: Adjusted for inflation Gone with the wind(1939) is the highest-grossing movie of all time.
YpdKv TIL the United States occupied Japan from the end of WWII in 1945 to April of 1952, but the island of Iwo Jima was not returned to Japan until 1968.
QJ7ZM TIL that Mike Mignola, the creator of Hellboy, was a production designer for Disney's "Atlantis: The Lost Empire". Mignola was a major influence on the art direction of the movie, and the animators put a lot of effort into capturing his unique art style.