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TIL James Gunn hosted a reality show about the next Scream Queen in a horror film, and eliminated a contestant uncomfortable with performing a sexual scene.

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97B6 TIL a man stole a Salvador Dali painting in full view of security cameras in broad daylight, mailed it back to the museum a week later, and was only caught because he had shoplifted a juice bottle a year prior, allowing police to match his fingerprints on the package to those on the bottle.
5LbD TIL the Krakatoa eruption, the loudest recorded sound in history, was heard from 3,000miles away. That’s like being in Boston and hearing a sound from Dublin, Ireland.
16wnV TIL That during WW2, President of China Chiang Kai-Shek had to be kidnapped by two of his generals to a negotiating table with the Chinese Communist Party rebels to negotiate a ceasefire that would let him make preparations for the Second Sino-Japanese War.
L5MP TIL in 1988, Mark Wahlberg assaulted two Vietnamese men, knocking one man unconscious and permanently blinding the other, calling them “slant-eyed gooks”. He ended up serving 45 days for the crime.
AD887 TIL Madagascar got its name when Marco Polo confused the island with the city of Mogadishu and then misspelled the name in his writings.