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TIL Trey Parker and Matt Stone (creators of South Park) only starred in BASEketball - they did not write or direct the film

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YpG7P TIL Victor Fleming directed Gone With The Wind and The Wizard of Oz in the same year, the 4th and 6th best American films according to the American Film Institute's 1998 list.
6EneQ TIL that the oldest person ever in the world was Jeanne Louise Calment, who was born on February 21, 1875 in Arles, France. She died on August 4, 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days old.
N7BQ8 TIL that there is a slow motion camera that can record 10 trillion frames per second. This is fast enough to actually see light travel from point to point.
P1nkJ TIL that during the 2017 Mexico City earthquake, a TV network fabricated live coverage of a fake survivor trapped in the ruins of her primary school for ratings. After the hoax was exposed, a rival TV network mocked them by airing an old Simpsons episode where Bart pulls off a similar hoax.
LkPkm TIL George Carlin was the narrator for the children's show Thomas & Friends