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TIL In 2005, Benedict Cumberbatch was abducted at gunpoint in South Africa and left in unsettled territory with no explanation

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41mb TIL in 2012, inmates working in a Vermont prison print shop altered the official Vermont Police Crest to include the hidden image of a pig. The altered decals adorned 30 police cruisers for a year before anybody noticed.
4Q1g TIL if a lamb dies, you can dress another lamb with its skin and the mother of the dead lamb will accept it.
gMAND TIL that Japan has over 5 million operating vending machines currently within the country, making it so there is 1 vending machine per 23 people, making it the country with the most vending machines per capita in the entire world.
M7XE8 TIL the director Tony Kaye of American History X was regarded as unemployable by Hollywood because the studio wanted Edward Norton's cut which had an additional 18 minutes of footage. Kaye took out $100k in ads condemning Norton and studio and tried changing his name in the credits to Humpty Dumpty
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