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TIL The rivalry between the British actor William Charles Macready and American actor Edwin Forrest resulted in a riot that left dozens dead. The 1849 riot resulted in the increased divide from high-class Shakespearen theaters and low class vaudeville entertainment.

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p8Gv8 TIL final battle scene in "The Last Jedi" was filmed on Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat in Bolivia. By some estimates more than 10 billion tons of salt cover the region today and it's home to more than 50 percent of the world's lithium reserves
8mMV TIL When two New Zealand trawlers came across a Japanese submarine that outweighed them by more than 1000 tons, the two Kiwi trawlers kept ramming it until they beached the much larger sub. This allowed the U.S. to capture key Japanese codebooks
8e84G TIL that Barbed Wire was used as Telephone Line in rural America in the 19th Century
WNro TIL after Olga of Kiev’s husband got murdered, she went after the culprits and not only obliterated the whole family through ruse and deceit, but also destroyed their city. With pigeons.
4XLbJ TIL that in 1971 a German episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus was produced for broadcast in Germany & Austria. None of the Pythons spoke German, so the script was translated and memorized phonetically.