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TIL the original script for Predator (1987) involved one soldier fighting the Predator. This bothered Arnold Schwarzenegger, so the story was redone to include a team of commandos.

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Lkkkd TIL Linford Christie was disqualified from competing in the 1996 olympics 100m final, due to having a ‘false’ start with a reaction time of 0.086s, while the rules state runners must have a reaction time of greater than 0.1s.
BRlb TIL Matt Stone & Trey Parker had people warn them that there would be Mormon protests surrounding their musical “The Book of Mormon”, but the church has had a great sense of humor about it, even advertising in some BOM playbills with phrases like “the book is always better”
PYxmE TIL That in Ancient Rome, black people were not excluded from anything or discriminated against because of their color or appearance.