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TIL Ben Affleck is Fluent in Spanish

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Oona1 TIL of the pizza principle, which states that the price of a pizza slice will always match the price of the New York City subway fare.
nVaB TIL that when NBC was broadcasting the 2012 London Olympic opening ceremony for the US, they skipped over the 7/7 London terror attack tribute and instead showed Ryan Seacrest interviewing Michael Phelps
QyYL TIL during the first stages of the Spanish-American War, USS Charleston fired 13 shots at the island of Guam as a response they sent a small ship carrying a Spanish officer who asked the USS Charleston for gun powder as they were out of it.
DGBv TIL Under the Soviet Union, the distribution of Beatles albums was forbidden by the government, so some medical students would burn Beatles songs onto old X-rays.
G9y7 TIL in 2005, Rob Schneider ripped critic Patrick Goldstein for panning Deuce Bigalow 2, stating Goldstein was unqualified to judge when he had never even been awarded by his peers. Roger Ebert’s response? “As chance would have it, I have won the Pulitzer Prize… Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks”.