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TIL that during the 2011 Tucson shooting when the gunman stopped to reload, a 61 y/o woman grabbed his magazine while another bystander clubbed the back of his head with a folding chair. The gunman was finally tackled to the ground by a 74 y/o retired United States Army Colonel who had been shot.

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RGd9 TIL the stunt coordinator of Deliverance felt a canoe scene with a dummy in it looked too phony. After reshooting the scene with himself in the canoe, Burt Reynolds, coughing up water and nursing a broken coccyx, asked how the scene looked. The director responded, “like a canoe with a dummy in it.”
m1aMY TIL that in animation, the voices are generally recorded first, then the animation was or is drawn or rendered to that.
roK1 TIL that the last McDonald’s burger sold in Iceland before its closure in 2009 is on display at a hostel in Reykjavik. And you can watch a live webcam of the burger, which turns 7 today.
7r8Qr TIL Earlier this year, analysis showed that Subway 'chicken' was about 1/2 chicken, 1/2 soy mush.
VMZK0 TIL that in the 1790s a meteorite about 10 tonnes in mass crashed into what is now the suburbs of Melbourne Australia. No white people saw it, but the Boon Wurrung aboriginal people did and it was a source of profound feelings for them. Later, white people stole it and sent it to a London museum.