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TIL that the United States has a long and storied history of partisan guerilla warfare against its own citizens

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M4nB TIL Stephen King hated the 1980 Stanley Kubrick film version of The Shining stating; “Shelley Duvall as Wendy is really one of the most misogynistic characters ever put on film.”
4kam5 TIL The movie Footloose, which is about a town where dancing is prohibited, is inspired from a real town, Elmore City, Oklahoma. The ban started before statehood, and high-schoolers petitioned in 1980 to be able to dance at prom
8a9DP TIL that in 1974 a local in Alaska played an April fool's joke on April 1st of an entire city. He set about 100 car tires, smoke bombs and other flammable materials on fire in the crater of an inactive volcano to make it look like the volcano was about to erupt.
0ZjR TIL the evolutionary advantage for pruney fingers is they help us grip wet surfaces
7roZL TIL that alot of animals considered herbivores are actually Omnivores. Deer, Sheep, Camel's, Hippo's, Rabbits, etc can all eat meat.