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TIL that the “Funny how? Like a clown?” scene in Goodfellas is based on an actual encounter Joe Pesci had with a mobster while working in a restaurant as a young man.

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DQ1WJ TIL In 1962 the French Defense Minister and Minister of Scientific Research were accidentally exposed to nuclear fallout. A subteranean nuclear bomb test in Béryl failed and the minister of defence described it as, 'a kind of gigantic blowtorch flame that started exactly horizontal in our direction'
nWaoB TIL Alanis Morissette sang backup vocals on DMB Don't drink the water 🤯🤯🤯🤯
KYywQ TIL that Aircraft Carriers have up to 6000 people working onboard at all times, and have been called "floating cities at sea"
oB9VE TIL Anne Frank’s dad edited her diary, removing things about sex and dirty jokes.
nQ8G TIL In the Japanese radio censored version of the song “Gay Bar” by Electric six, the line “let’s start a war, start a nuclear war” is replaced with “let’s do an edit, do a radio edit”