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TIL that Great Britain was at war with Sweden for almost 2 years without ever actually fighting. There were zero causalities and ships traded as usual.

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xVg9b TIL that while filming There Will Be Blood, the director Paul Thomas Anderson tested the pyrotechnical effects of an oil fire, causing an enormous amount of smoke to intrude on the nearby set of No Country For Old Men, filming of No Country For Old men had to be delayed for a day because of this.
05AN TIL that Burlington, Vermont is the first city in the USA to run on 100% clean energy
oG4L TIL that in the novel, Forrest Gump goes to space on a NASA mission. It crash lands on an island where he’s stuck for years. These scenes weren’t in the movie, but Tom Hanks did go on to star in Apollo 13 and Castaway.
W79Vo TIL of Michael Hay, a British lawyer who opened a law firm in North Korea, which won some of its cases, but closed in 2016 due to sanctions
Oo7bR TIL In 2014, a Chinese couple reportedly sold their two children to fund their internet gaming addictions