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TIL Jackie Chan will donate all his money to charity so his son can earn his own worth.

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7rmxp TIL The Battle of Leyte Gulf was, by some criteria, the largest naval battle in history, with over 200,000 naval personnel involved. The Japanese lost 1 fleet carrier, 3 light carriers, 3 battleships, 6 heavy cruisers, 4 light cruisers, 11 destroyers, 300 aircraft, & 12,500 killed
RY0j TIL that on August 11, 1984, Ronald Reagan joked about attacking the Soviet Union, not realizing that he was being recorded. He said “"My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”
ylPa TIL: In 1999, the U.S. government paid the Zapruder family $16 million for the film of JFK’s assassination.
RjXl TIL R. Lee Ermey, the former US Marine who played the drill instructor in Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket”, actually wrote 50% of his own dialogue in the film - “especially the insults”
xV8Zb TIL That in 1991 Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) was arrested by undercover detectives in Sarisota Florida for indecent exposure at a porn theater. Pee Wee made an appearance at the 1991 MTV VMAs and received a standing ovation after asking the audience, "Heard any good jokes lately?"