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TIL "Chasing Amy" was originally supposed to be a Clueless-type teen comedy set in a high school with Ethan Suplee as one of the main characters. Instead, Mallrats (1995) bombed at the box office, forcing Kevin Smith to write the film's premise and setting.

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ADZKl TIL that Hummingbirds are the only known species of bird that can fly backwards
69oMm TIL of the Pierce Arrow armoured anti aircraft lorry deployed by the Royal Marine Artillery in the First World War. Used from 1915 to 1917, it shot down over twenty enemy aircraft, having take out the first of these within two days of deployment.
EgGax TIL when John Steinbeck published The Grapes Of Wrath in 1939, a farm worker with two leaders of California Associated Farmers publicly burned a copy of the book because he did not like what he heard about it, even though he had not read it. After reading it years later, he said he “had no regrets.”
Rpvw TIL in 1979 flying LAX-JFK and upgrading to first class was only 20% of the ticket price. Today it’s 225%.
r0VM TIL that the Los Zetas cartel was formed by a group of commando’s who defected from the Mexican army in the late 1990s. It is considered by the U.S. government to be the “most technologically advanced, sophisticated, and dangerous cartel operating in Mexico.”