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TIL In the movie Step Brothers, in the scene where Brennan declares, “Did we just become best friends,” there is a sign in the background for Hugalo’s Pizza. Hugalo’s is the restaurant from which Ricky Bobby (Will Ferrell) delivered pizzas in Talladega Nights after his crash and mental breakdown.

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x60R7 TIL why Japan drives on the left hand side of the road which goes back all the way to the Edo period (1603-1867) when Samurai ruled the country. In 1872, England won the bid to help Japan build it's railway system (railways were all left side running) and left hand side driving became "official".
P1lRO TIL that on the weekend of Friday June 22nd Professional Wrestler Chris Benoit killed his wife Nancy, then his son and the next day himself. But 14 hours before anyone knew what happened a wiki user edited a wiki article to say that Nancy was dead, later claiming it was a "terrible coincidence".
KOrQB TIL that "potter's field," a term synonymous with mass graves, has a Biblical origin. It refers to an extremely clay-rich parcel of land in Jerusalem, purchased with the 30 pieces of silver which Judas returned to the chief priests. Useless for farming, the land was used to bury strangers.
R7Yd6 TIL that the swastikas on Allied aircrafts in old pictures are called victory markings, and marked each Nazi plane downed by that aircraft. Bomb stencils marked each mission run. The names of pilots and crew were added before the craft was retired from duty.
AN00l TIL France recycles 96% of it's nuclear waste from powerplants