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TIL that Carrie Fisher was one of Hollywood’s premiere script doctors, and fixed some of the industry’s most well known films before release

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p89WZ TIL Of White Coke a highly illegal substance in the Soviet Union. It was regular coca-cola disguised in a vodka bottle and it was given to Field Marshall Gregory Zhukov by US general Eisenhower. Zhukov could not drink coke in public as it was a symbol of capitalism so the vodka bottle disguised it.
R5bb6 TIL mammoths were still alive as recently as 3730 - 4490 years ago
5YraB TIL about The World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things - a traveling roadside attraction filled with miniature replicas of other roadside attractions.
4kEYg TIL that a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb killed 6 civilians in Oregon on May 5th, 1945.
NlV8 TIL that after Sherlock Holmes was killed off, 20000 people cancelled their subscription to the magazine it was published in and bombarded it and Conan Doyle with abusive mail.