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TIL R. Lee Ermey was the only person ever allowed to improvise dialogue in a Kubrick film.

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DOyr TIL Koala fingerprints and human fingerprints are so alike that crime scene experts can mistake one for the other.
4XAew TIL in 2003 the smoke from large bushfires in Canberra, Australia formed a Cumulonimbus Flammagenitus. Essentially the fire created its own supercell storm, complete with lighting and forming an F3-rated fire tornado. The tornado and associated fire killed 4 people and injured 492 others.
bPr0 TIL that the US and Britain nearly went to war in 1859 because an American farmer shot a pig and then refused to pay for it. The US sent 461 men to “make a Bunker Hill of it” and Britain sent 2,140 men and five warships before President Buchanan calmed everyone the heck down.
ymG8 TIL: TV Producers made most musical artist lip synch but not The Supremes. They were one group they trusted to pull it off live.
J1Lov TIL The first air raid in WWII on the German capital was carried out on the night of June 7, 1940, by a lone French Farman F.223.4 long-range bomber nicknamed "Jules Verne". The crew manually dropped bombs, primarily targeting the Siemens factory, and successfully returned to their base in France.