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TIL General MacArthur wanted to win the Korean War by dropping 30-50 atomic bombs on air bases, followed by sowing nuclear waste into the ground to create a permanent radioactive border to prevent future invasions from the North.

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wQA1 TIL for each new film, a movie is set up as its own corporation, the entire point of which is to lose money. This is so actors, writers, and other individuals who are promised a share of the profits actually earn nothing since the movie, as a corporation, technically lost money.
Y76nZ TIL that Clifford Johnson, the most severely burned survivor of 1942's horrific Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in Boston, underwent several hundred operations. He married his nurse and returned home to Missouri. Years later, he burned to death in a fiery automobile crash.
6ERWw TIL the first generation of Mexican drug smugglers were Chinese-Mexican opium farmers from Sinaloa
PY7BZ TIL that the sampled moaning heard on the background of Prince's "Peach" track was recorded by Kim Basinger.
R8Vw TIL Robert Downey Jr. credits Mel Gibson with saving his career and getting him sober.