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TIL that the 1998 film Small Soldiers nearly received an R Rating due to violence & explosions

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R7o5j TIL that Harlon block, a marine who raised the flag at Iwo Jima, died a few days after the famous photo of the event was taken. He was misidentified for 2 years. However, his mother had immediately recognised him in it, saying “I’ve changed so many diapers on that boy’s butt, I know it’s my boy".
e068b TIL Vanna White, the lady on Wheel of Fortune who touches the letters when contestants choose them, makes $8 million per year and has a net worth of $140 million
4X8bb TIL There is a tree so poisonous you should not even stand near it for any length of time
4k16J TIL many Japanese, including the Governor of Toyko, believe the Kantō Massacre (where an estimated 6000 Koreans were killed) did not occur
LNM9 TIL that on the set of Rocky IV, Lundgren (Ivan Drago) punched Sylvester Stallone so hard that he had to be sent to the hospital, where they thought he had been hit by a car.