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TIL: NYPD sent an undercover officer to follow André the Giant around whenever he went out drinking in their city to make sure he didn’t fall on anyone (again).

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RwX7 TIL a list was compiled of actors with the most on-screen kills, which included (understandably) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, and Clint Eastwood, but also at #7, beating out Jet Li, is Nicolas Cage with 204 on-screen kills.
wLMO7 TIL: In the 2004 Afghan election, the government instructed illiterate voters to draw an icon for their candidate, but both progressives and traditionalists were represented by drawing a book. One was meant to represent secular education, the other the Quran.
ne5V9 TIL In Die Hard, Alan Rickman’s petrified expression while falling was completely genuine. The stunt team instructed him that they would drop him the 25 feet on the count of 3 but instead dropped him at 1.
ZYAo TIL during WWII, Bill Tutte cracked the German Lorenz cipher using nothing more than a pen and paper, and having never seen the machine, after the Germans accidentally sent the same message twice. It is described as one the the greatest intellectual feats of the 20th Century.
epVJD TIL "no kill" animal shelters may euthanize animals, and there is no official body regulating the label.