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TIL how many A list actors and actresses signed the Polanski petition

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kO9Qm TIL there is a McDonald's that is only used for filming and serves no food
P1dV TIL that an alligators immune system can fight HIV
rNYEo TIL Delhi, India is the most surveilled city in the world with 1,826.6 CCTV cameras per square mile
wL7x8 Til, Heracleitus, sick with Dropsy, tried to cure it by covering himself in cow dung, thinking that it would draw the bad humours out. One version claims that the manure was too wet and he drowned in it, another that it was too dry and he dried out, third version says dogs ate him whole.
4kDow TIL the movie Big Trouble was set to come out on 9/21/2001 and was a comedy movie about smuggling a nuke onto a plane but the movie was postponed til April the next year and the promotion campaign was toned down almost to the point of abandonment. The movie later bombed at the box office.