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TIL Morgan Freeman is against Black History Month

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ep0Gn TIL The helicopters in Apocalypse Now (1979) belonged to The Philippines. During the famous “The Ride of the Valkyries” scene, the helicopters had to leave the set to go and fight insurgents who were positioned just 10 miles away.
j6Ara TIL of Roger Marie Bricoux, one of the musicians on the Titanic. All band members died on the ship; however, he wasn't declared dead until 2000, and the French army considered him a deserter in World War I.
bmW4 TIL that a manatee’s eyes close in a circular fashion, like the aperture of a camera
VMBNZ TIL of the "lizardman constant", which explains seemingly nonsensical poll results such as "4% of americans believe that lizards are running the earth" and "7% of americans think that chocolate milk comes from brown cows"
LQ1a9 TIL that typewriters used to not have an exclamation mark on them, or even the number 1, both had to be approximated by typing other characters in their place. 1 was a lowercase L and exclamation marks were the combination of an apostrophe and period.