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TIL robin williams did over the phone stand up to Spielberg to cheer him up while he was making schlinders list

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ln6A TIL that pig rectum is almost indistinguishable from calamari, and is sometimes secretly used as a substitute or sold as “artificial calamari”.
7LM7 TIL in Minnesota, the game “Duck, Duck, Goose” is called “Duck, Duck, Grey Duck”.
nWmlY TIL about Derrick Leverton, a British anti-air officer in WW2 who, during the invasion of Sicily while waiting for his guns to be unloaded, dug his own grave, had a cup of tea, and took a nap - all while still exposed to dive bombers on the beach.
J1RV1 TIL: The top 3 imported items by weight in the US are furniture, bananas and artwork
xVxw5 TIL that in 1920, the town of Jackson, Wyoming elected an all-female town council by a margin of 2-1 over the men, drawing the most voters the town had ever seen. Known as the "pettycoat rulers," the women served for 3 years and did a great deal to clean up the notoriously lawless town