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TIL that the famous scene in "Apocalypse Now" where Martin Sheen’s character has a drunken breakdown in a hotel room, was not scripted. One day, Sheen got completely shitfaced and ordered the crew to film him. He got aggressive and started punching out mirrors. Francis Ford Coppola kept rolling.

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GAJKN TIL Greek language uses the English semicolon (;) as a question mark (?), while the colon (:) and semicolon (;) are performed by a raised point (·)
4Xo4R TIL in WW1, glow worms were gathered and used in lamps to light the trenches. Also, due to their extreme ability to detect particles in the air, slugs were used to detect gas attacks. If the slugs closed their breathing spires and contracted, troops would know to put on their gas masks
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1LE4 TIL that in 2010, Ghana doubled police salaries, in part to reduce petty corruption on its highways. However, researchers found that police officers actually demanded larger bribes after the salary increase, despite allowing more trucks to pass without taking bribes.