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TIL Director Akira Kurosawa was so impressed with The Magnificent Seven, the American adaptation of his own film, Seven Samurai, that he presented director John Sturges with a sword

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nelQY TIL blues singer Blind Willie Johnson was arrested for singing “If I Had My Way I’d Tear The Building Down," a song about Samson, outside of a custom house when a passing police officer thought the gravelly voice Johnson was inciting a riot to destroy the custom house
5v6D TIL In 1983, a 61-year-old potato farmer named Cliff Young won a 544 mile endurance race because he ran throughout the night while the younger ‘professional’ athletes slept.
E1P6d TIL in 2003, after Roy Hunt was brutally mauled by one of his tigers during their show in Vegas, the doctors removed a part of his skull to avoid his death from brain swelling, and placed it in a pocket inside of his abdomen until it was ready to be reattached.
P1p9n TIL "AC/DC" is an abbreviation meaning "alternating current/direct current" electricity
xVxng TIL For the movie Godzilla (1998), Rage Against The Machine was commissioned to contribute to the original soundtrack. The resulting track, "No Shelter", explicitly trashes the movie and Hollywood in general