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TIL that Ron Jeremy has a masters degree in special education

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16rpV TIL real doctors from USC Medical Center were recruited to play the doctors who try to save E.T. because Spielberg felt that actors talking about technical medical matters didn’t seem natural.
GGr1 TIL that US courts have ruled that police departments can refuse to hire someone considered to be ‘too smart.’
yxxp TIL Citizens of Athens, Tennessee in 1946 lead an armed rebellion against the local government who was accused of using law enforcement to intimidate voters and rig elections.
90gX TIL; Pill bugs are not ‘bugs’ at all. They are land-dwelling crustaceans.
xVg9b TIL that while filming There Will Be Blood, the director Paul Thomas Anderson tested the pyrotechnical effects of an oil fire, causing an enormous amount of smoke to intrude on the nearby set of No Country For Old Men, filming of No Country For Old men had to be delayed for a day because of this.