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TIL AIPAC tried to hide evidence that it played a major part in pushing for the Invasion of Iraq in 2003

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EBv0 TIL of Jack the Goat who decided to befriend a newly blinded horse named Charlie. Jack guided Charlie around for 16 years and spared Charlie’s owners from having to put him(Charlie) down.
XEldr TIL during the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where Indi holds up the Nazis with a rocket launcher, an actor appears to swallow a fly during dialog but it actually flew away. Steven Spielberg noticed it and decided it would be funny to cut out a few frames so the fly would not be seen flying away.
ANAvg TIL An impoverished Turkish city named "Batman" planned to sue Warner Bros and and Christopher Nolan in 2008 for using the city's name without permission saying that “there is only one Batman in the world”.
DQgBD TIL that, in the Maldives, magic is state sanctioned with approval and multiple coconuts have been detained for allegedly being cursed to rig elections
01d5 TIL that in Finland, speeding tickets are charged as a percentage of your income