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TIL that during the filming of My Left Foot (1989), Oscar winning actor, Daniel Day-Lewis remained in character for the whole production. He stayed in the wheel chair for the duration of the shot and the film crew had to lift him over obstacles. They had to feed him too.

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ZegD TIL When prohibition was repealed in 1933, Yuengling beer Company sent a truckload of “Winner Beer” to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in appreciation, which arrived the day the amendment was repealed — particularly notable since Yuengling beer takes almost three weeks to brew and age.
4Xy1J TIL that there was a "Human Zoo" exhibit at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair where the Ministry of Colonies built a Congolese exhibit to demonstrate their claim to have "civilized" the "primitive Africans."
E1wyW TIL Michael and Joy Brown gave their friend a paid year off in 1956 to write a book. Their friend was Harper Lee and she wrote “To Kill a Mockingbird”
4Xj1X TIL the Windover Archeological Site is a small muck pond 5 miles from Cape Canaveral that contained the remains from 168 humans buried in clusters, in five or six episodes scattered over a thousand years during the Archaic period.
6EXYX TIL in June, 2016 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police seized one kilogram of carfentanil shipped from China in a box labelled "printer accessories". The shipment contained 50 million lethal doses of the drug, more than enough to wipe out the entire population of the country.