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TIL that at least twice, CNN correspondent Sanjay Gupta has been on location reporting, but needed to step in as a neurosurgeon: once on a Marine in Iraq, the other on a little girl injured during the Haitian earthquake.

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Z87R TIL The “XXX” that you see on the sides of moonshine signifies how many times the batch had been run through the still.
5ABk TIL that when Halle Berry won the Razzie for worst actress for her role in Catwoman, she said “First of all, I want to thank Warner Brothers. Thank you for putting me in a piece of shit, god-awful movie… It was just what my career needed.” while holding an oscar she just won for Monster Ball
8a59G TIL there was a 1920 novel about Abraham Lincoln's mother titled 'The Matrix.'
R7na TIL that in October of 1988 a group of fundamentalist christians armed with molotov cocktails staged an attack on a Parisian screening of the controversial film The Last Temptation of Christ, Injuring 13 moviegoers
Obx7 TIL the USAF has fire suppression systems in hangars that can cover the floor with 20+ feet of fire-retardant foam