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TIL Oliver Reed, Proximo from the movie Gladiator, died during a lunch break on from shooting after drinking 3 bottles of Captain Morgans and 8 beers.

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wL0P8 TIL British abstract artist & architect Victor Pasmore designed the brutalist Apollo Pavilion for the Sunny Blunts housing estate. It became heavily vandalised & was so hated by the residents that they campaigned & nearly succeeded in having it demolished. It is now protected as a listed monument.
ax0b TIL that this young man sits on the side of Empire Road in South Africa and instead of begging he provides book reviews. He collects all these books, reads each of them, and provides reviews for people passing by. If you like the review, he will try to sell you the book.
v1MP8 TIL that while filming 'Batman Begins' a drunk driver crashed into the Batmobile because he thought it was an alien spacecraft. "This poor drunken guy who didn’t have a license. [He] said he got so panicked when he saw the car that he thought aliens were landing," explained Christian Bale.
Egxl7 TIL that due to a failed initial land survey that the border was Georgia-Tennessee border was drawn about a mile south of the agreed upon 35th parallel, this issue has been revisited recently as the reclaimed territory would give GA access to the Tennessee river allow more water for Atlanta.
mxxYo TIL French stage actress Sarah Bernhardt, the illegitimate child of a prostitute, aspired to be a nun, and while in a convent, she was accused of sacrilege for arranging a Christian burial for her pet lizard.