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TIL shooting on “No Country for Old Men” had to be shut down because of the smoke clouds drifting over from the nearby set of “There Will Be Blood.”

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0dGQN TIL Sour Patch Kids are called Very Bad Kids in France and were originally called Mars Men.
rRkGy TIL that serial killer Richard Chase (“The Vampire of Sacramento”) only broke into unlocked houses. He saw locked doors as a sign that he wasn’t welcome at a house, but unlocked doors as an invitation to come inside.
AJRx TIL traffic in central London moves at the same speed as horse-drawn carriages a century ago
l1Na TIL A cat survived the sinking of three separate ships in World War Two, earning its title as “Unsinkable Sam.”
woElJ TIL that in order to settle their long standing border dispute Benin and Burkina Faso declared in 2008 that the ~68 km2 area of Koalou/Kourou would belong to neither country. Making it one of the worlds few unclaimed territories.