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TIL Wilson in Castaway was inspired by screenwriter William Broyles's experience when, during a one-week stay on an isolated beach for research, a volleyball washed up on shore.

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eAQJ TIL Monopoly can theoretically be won in 2 turns.
GAxEg TIL in 1996, the IRA Manchester bomb was the biggest bomb detonated in Great Britain since the Second World War, yet nobody died because the police managed to evacuate everyone from the area
D1J TIL That Actor Christopher Lee, Witnessed the Last Public Guillotine Execution in France.
XPND TIL the callers on Grand Theft Auto IV’s talk shows are actually fans of the series that entered a phone-in competition. Entrants were asked to talk about everything they think is wrong with “America, Liberals or Your Health”
B71K TIL that In November 2010, Leonardo DiCaprio donated $1,000,000 to the Wildlife Conservation Society at Russia’s tiger summit. DiCaprio’s persistence in reaching the event after encountering two plane delays caused then Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to describe him as a “muzhik” or “real man”.