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TIL the comedy film My Cousin Vinny is often praised by lawyers due to its accurate depiction of courtroom procedure.

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DQ50p TIL about the War of the Bucket. It was fought in 1325 between the rival city-states of Bologna and Modena, in Italy. A common myth surrounding the war is that it was caused by the Modenese stealing a bucket from a Bolognese well. Modena won the Battle of Zappolino, the only battle of the war
6Ew67 TIL: Cleopatras' fame as a beautiful seductive master was entirely made by Octavian as a way of explaining how this foreign queen managed to seduce two of Rome's most powerful men, while being described as a beauty, she was best known for her intelligence and charm.
9YEMQ TIL that when the horror/thriller movie "Scar" (the first American 3D feature film to be completed in HD 3D) was released in 2007, at one instance a man was "out cold and paramedics were actually called" and "one viewer ran out of the theater and threw up"
AD6R4 TIL Queen Elizabeth II likes her steak well-done and dislikes garlic
R7jZw TIL the barbed wire fences along forest roads have a smooth bottom wire to allow for wildlife to pass easily