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TIL when the directors of Harold and Kumar (2004) took their movie to film producers, the producers said "we really love this movie", but wanted to change the main characters from Korean and Indian to "a White guy and a Black dude"

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dDK5Q TIL about the Khodynka Tragedy, a crowd crush that occurred at a huge celebration of the coronation of Czar Nicholas II in 1896. 1,389 people died.
ldK1 TIL the exclave of Point Roberts, Washington, accessible only by driving through Canada, is a popular destination for people in the US Witness Relocation Program since it is effectively off-limits to US citizens who can’t get passports.
KYO99 TIL over 2.5 million people applied for tickets to see Oasis at Knebworth Festival in Knebworth, England in 1996. This meant the possibility of 20 sold out nights. It remains the largest demand for concert tickets in British history.
J1vN1 TIL the fictional languages in the Game of Thrones series are fully complete languages. Of all the actors that had to speak one or more of them, the person that portrayed the Grey Worm character was considered the best/most talented. He was skilled enough to speak like a natural native speaker.
ADPWd TIL someone actually set up a solar powered MP3 and speaker in the middle of the Namibian desert to play play “Africa” by Toto for eternity