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TIL Elon Musk was an executive producer for Thank You for Smoking

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1aZ0X TIL During WW2, USSR lost more soldiers during the Battle of Stalingrad than USA during the complete war
DQoaP TIL Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) had a script in the original trilogy and would talk to Harrison Ford (Han Solo), and the other cast on set in English, in order to queue them to say their line. The wookie 'voice' was added post editing.
EgPa0 TIL Sarah Bradlee Fulton the "Mother of the Boston Tea Party" is credited with coming up with the idea that Tea Party participants wear Mohawk disguises to avoid detection from the British.
lo941 TIL a coin flip actually has a 51/49 probability of landing heads or tails -- favoring the side facing up when flipped. If you spin a US penny on its side, however, it has an 80% chance of landing tails up.
N7opQ TIL about the Peter principle, where people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their "level of incompetence"