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TIL Americans Believe Violence is Worse than Ever; When in Reality U.S. Violence is Lower than Ever

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DQOWJ TIL all roles in the "Alien" movie script were written as "unisex", with genders to be determined during casting; Ripley was initially considered to be a man
KO444 TIL Mr T's real name is Lawrence Tureaud. He changed his name legally to Mr. T based upon childhood impressions regarding the lack of respect from white people for his family. He self-ordained himself Mr. T so the first word out of everybody's mouth is "Mr." which he considered a sign of respect.
loVdN TIL: If you ever got shrunk down to the size of an ant, not only would everything look bigger to you, but the world would also appear almost a million times darker, light would no longer appear straight meaning that the world around you would be covered in a haze of blurriness and shadow
Vnvp TIL King of the Hill has a drawn list of animation help for their oversees animators to prevent breaks in continuity and Asian influenced animation issues.
ANByg TIL William Pynchon, ancestor of the author Thomas Pynchon, wrote 'The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption' in 1650. A critique of Puritanism, it would become the first book banned by English colonists in New England.