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TIL the iconic MAS*H theme song is titled "Suicide is Painless" and was written by a 14 year old

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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.
4Xnd6 TIL that even though he owned slaves in the past, Benjamin Franklin became more opposed to slavery later in his life. Eventually becoming the president of an abolitionist society, he even included a provision in his will that required his child to free her slave in order to gain his inheritance.
LkXRr TIL there's a max height that water can be sucked up a straw: 10 meters. At 10 meters, a perfect vacuum is created at the top of the straw, and water will begin boiling spontaneously.
DewP TIL that Chinese prisoners are forced to farm World of Warcraft gold - there are thought to be 100,000 full-time gold farmers in the country.
gMrEb TIL Roman soldiers were paid in salt, or "sale" in Italian (and "sal" in Spanish), which grew into the modern English word of "salary."