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TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger was going to play Kyle Reese in the 1984 film The Terminator

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PBvO TIL that technology during the silent movie era forced actors to wear multi-colored makeup so the camera could capture their faces properly
b9ERj TIL that the term "OK" achieved national prominence in 1840, when Democrats claimed during the election that it stood for "Old Kinderhook," a nickname for incumbent President Van Buren. In response, Whig opponents attributed OK ("Oll Korrect," or all correct) to the bad spelling of Andrew Jackson.
Krxa TIL Nguyen Ngoc Loan, the police chief who executed a suspected Viet Cong officer in the now world famous picture taken by Eddie Adams, moved to the US and opened a pizza restaurant in Washington D.C.
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