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TIL that Ingmar Bergman interviewed with himself many times.

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VBgN8 TIL that the writer of “Jingle Bells” fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War even though he was from Massachusetts and his father was a chaplain in the Union army.
E1ZVV TIL on July 17, 1955, within a week of Disneyland opening, operator error resulted in the caboose of the Disneyland Railroad crashing and derailing. During the ensuing commotion, the brakeman at fault "quietly left the scene of the accident, exited the park, and was not seen again".
9YKJQ TIL that "A Fistful of Dollars", the first of the Man with no Name trilogy, was an unlicensed remake of Akira Kurasawa's film "Yojimbo". Kurasawa filed a lawsuit, then settled with Sergio Leone out of court with 15% of international receipts and over $100,000.
ne4mr TIL that Christian preacher Joel Osteen has a reported net worth of over $56 million. He lives in Texas with his family in a home valued at $10.5 million. Osteen’s televised sermons are seen by over 7 million viewers weekly and over 20 million monthly in over 100 countries.
W7ryB TIL of Xingtian, the God of Not Giving up. In Ancient Chinese Myth he fought vs. Huangdi for the title of Supreme God, lost, and got beheaded. However he turned his nipples & navel into eyes & a mouth and resumed battling for the top spot again