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TIL Steven Spielberg never was paid for Schindler’s List saying any salary would be blood money. Instead he donated everything to the Shoah Foundation.

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QNJ5p TIL: In 1977 Evel Knievel attacked the president of Fox Sports, Shelley Saltman, with a baseball bat. He was upset over a book that painted an unflattering portrait. Although convicted he served a minimal sentence; multi-million dollar judgment against estate never paid.
D15bj TIL North Korea filmed a movie in Japan in 1985, aimed at showing the oppression of Koreans in Japan. North Koreans, instead, drew the conclusion that Koreans were better off in Japan
OGPeX TIL that Terry Bradshaw once used the alias "Tom Brady" while checking into a hospital
jNbrN TIL Lego copied their interlocking brick system from a British psychologist in 1940, and have failed to trademark it several times since.
D1XGg TIL in 1800s, freed African-American slaves were helped to migrate to Liberia to escape oppression into a country of their very own, where they immediately established an apartheid upon their native African cousins, treating them the same way they were treated by their white oppressors.