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TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger’s last name, Schwarzenegger, translates to “dark harrower of the fields” in German.

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x6485 TIL that in 1996 a man named Blair Adams withdrew most of his money and fled Canada after allegedly telling friends someone was trying to kill him. He was found murdered six days later, in a parking lot 2150 miles away. His murder remains unsolved.
ANrY4 TIL that coca-cola was banned in Portugal because the man who wrote the slogan made people think the product was a drug.
neRr9 TIL about Serbian folk singer Milance Radosavljevic.When he was young he was struck by lightning and pronaunced dead.He was burried with his prized harmonica.Grave diggers came that night to retrive his harmonica, and found him alive. He went on having a successful music career, and is still alive.
O6GX TIL Orson Welles once met Hitler in the 1920s at a dinner, but later described the encounter saying, “He made so little impression on me that I can’t remember a second of it. He had no personality whatsoever.”
rNwBo TIL that in 2003, director David O. Russell put Christopher Nolan in a headlock after learning that Jude Law, who he wanted to cast, had decided to work with Nolan instead.