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TIL that Steven Spielberg couldn't find an airport that would allow him to film 'The Terminal', so he shot it instead in a hangar in a classified complex once used to build the B1-B bomber.

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P1eAw TIL that the Beach Boys' song "Never Learn Not to Love" started as a demo written for the band by Charles Manson titled "Cease To Exist". Manson was not credited as a songwriter due to the fact that he "exchanged his official writing credit for a sum of cash and a motorcycle".
4XGxb TIL Wataru Misaka the first non-white NBA player described his first game as "It wasn't a big thing" and "Nobody cared." the same year Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color barrier
neBwY TIL that the only pulp in the world that can be used to manufacture disposable surgical masks is produced in Nanaimo. BC, Canada. ????????
dLeK TIL of Patrick Combs, a man who cashed an obviously fake joke check for $95,000. The bank didn’t notice and gave him the money.
wPJ7 TIL France used to hold impotence trials, where wives could sue their husbands if he had ED. The husband would have to prove that he could get hard in court. If he couldn’t, his appeal would be a Trial by Congress, where the couple would have sex to prove the husband could fulfill his marital duties