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TIL Victor Fleming directed both The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind, and did both in the same year (1939).

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J16XQ TIL: The U.S. Airforce assigns aircraft to be "Wild Weasels". These aircraft act as bait to draw anti-aircraft fire, allowing the squad to locate and destroy the anti-aircraft batteries. Their motto is "YGBSM" or "You Gotta Be Sh*ttin' Me".
RVg4 TIL the assassination of the Archduke of Austria, which set off WWI, was due to a wrong turn. After a first failed attempt and the conspirators giving up on the mission, the Archduke decided to visit the injured in the hospital and accidentally drove past one of them after taking a wrong turn.
Me6k0 TIL that many starving children in developing nations appear bloated with swollen bellies due to a condition called kwashiorkor, an illness related to malnutrition caused by a lack of protein resulting in an osmotic imbalance where the cells hold onto too much water.
8aNRG TIL Massachusetts banned Christmas for 22 years because people were drinking too much and crossdressing
PmdJ TIL The movie ‘Jaws’ was supposed to have a lot more shark in it. After experiencing daily technical problems with the mechanical shark, Steven Spielberg was forced to rewrite the script and focus more on the 'fear of the unknown’. It went on to become the highest grossing film of all time.