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TIL that the 2001 film Shrek is based on a book.

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9w4XQ TIL that prior to making A Beautiful Mind, Ron Howard developed a different film about a man overcoming schizophrenia. Laws of Madness was an inspirational film about Michael Laudor, a Yale Law School graduate living with schizophrenia. The film was called off when Laudor murdered his girlfriend.
6EBZm TIL the Chernobyl nuclear plant wasn't shut down after the disaster, and was still producing electricity until the year 2000
QRVX TIL that Kevin Costner offered CIA operative and watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt $5 million to tell the truth about what happened in Dallas when JFK was assassinated.
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Lrn9 TIL Britain used the Australian outback as a nuclear testing ground, exploding seven Atomic Bombs at Maralinga in the south-west Australian outback.