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TIL that swearing increases your pain threshold.

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GGoN TIL The first man to be killed by a motor vehicle accident in the USA happened 125 years ago today
J1vjm TIL the Ugandan movie "Who Killed Captain Alex?" (2010) had costed less than US$200 to produce
9YmvG TIL about 14 cargo ships that were stranded in the Suez Canal for 8 years, whose crews all decided to form a micronation
m1PbO TIL BBC executives had decided not to air the pilot of the sitcom Are You Being Served but needed filler material to broadcast when the 1972 Summer Olympics were interrupted by the Munich Massacre. The show went on to run for 10 seasons and spawned a movie and a 2 season spinoff series
awgLM TIL that for the film "Deliverance", Warner Bros. took the song "Feudin' Banjos" and renamed it "Dueling Banjos", to avoid giving the original composer credit. He sued and received "substantial royalties".