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TIL, in Billy Madison Adam Sandler got special permission from the actors and their parents to actually hit the kids with dodgeballs

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4XdMo TIL that nearly half of all Vietnamese people have the same last name, making it almost impossible to trace an individual's heritage further than one or two generations
DQg0P TIL the title of the Cream album "Disraeli Gears" came when Eric Clapton mentioned wanting a racing bicycle to a roadie and the roadie said "oh yeah, disraeli gears," meaning to say "derailleur gears"
xVBv5 TIL that Charging Bull, the famous statue on Wall Street, was installed secretly and illegally outside the New York Stock Exchange in 1989 following the 1987 stock market crash. The sculpture was seized and impounded by NYPD, but re-installed two blocks south of the Exchange after a public outcry.
4X9nb TIL There was a mysterious culture in Eastern Europe between 5,500 to 2,700 BC which constructed sophisticated, organized, densely-populated settlements - only to burn them to the ground every 60-80 years to rebuild the same settlement as before
6Ayl TIL that there is a species of ant that is totally incapable of caring for their young, or feeding themselves, and thus relies on slave labor from other ants