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TIL It is illegal to use native bird species for commercial purposes, and that is why in Hollywood movies birds are often “wrong” species.

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grAZb TIL Klingons have two dicks
6ExXW TIL Sylvester Stallone commissioned Arkansas Knife Maker, Jimmy Lile, to create a knife for Rambo. Lile, instructed not to make a prop, responded with a blade that could "Cut through the fuselage of an aircraft" and a unique hollow handle to store survival necessities.
MeeV7 TIL that Disney attempted to trademark "Día de los Muertos" in 2013.
Lg40 TIL in 1933 Major General Smedley Butler proclaimed there was a Coup d'état plot against Roosevelt by the Fascist American upper class who were opposed to the New Deal. He was asked to lead half a million men to take the white house and establish a dictatorship.
KYy1w TIL John McTiernan, director of Die Hard, Predator, and The Hunt for Red October, served a year in federal prison for a wiretapping scandal around the awful movie Rollerball and he has not made a movie since 2003