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TIL That When Monopoly was introduced to communist Czechoslovakia, private businesses were illegal and mortgages didn’t exist, so they turned it into a horse racing variant

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nPxG TIL that the 1968 film “Planet of the Apes” was originally planned to be an episode of the television series “The Twilight Zone” written by Rod Serling.
j7jj TIL that due to poaching, many African elephants are now being born tuskless.
0x9v TIL in 1940, 11-year-old Audrey Hepburn studied ballet in occupied Holland. To aid the resistance, the students performed in secret while Nazi patrols roamed nearby. Applause was forbidden, and later Hepburn said, “The best audience I ever had made not a single sound at the end of my performance.”
D1g8j TIL that during the filming of Titanic (1997), an angry crew member put PCP into the soup that Cameron and others ate one night. Cameron was described as having “One eye completely red, like the Terminator eye. The other eye looked like he’d been sniffing glue since he was four.”
JYbml TIL that hangovers cost the UK economy £1.4 Billion ($1.8Billion) a year.