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TIL that Olympic gold medals are not made entirely of gold. They are mostly silver with only about 6 grams of gold plating.

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aB7b TIL that three of the actors who played Nazis on the WWII sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes” were German Jews who had escaped from Nazi Germany. Two of them spent time in concentration camps, and another French Jewish actor also spent time in a camp.
9XOr TIL Woody Harrelson used the Zombie defense and it worked - Woody Harrelson claimed he mistook a TMZ photographer for zombie while he was shooting Zombieland - LA prosecutors declined to press charges against the actor
aw18Z TIL that the name for Director Brian Singer's production company Bad Hat Harry Productions (X-Men, The Usual Suspects, House, M.D.), and the quote that accompanies the "Vanity Card" shown at the end of a TV Show they produced, are taken from Jaws.
R7wv6 TIL the bubonic plague killed an estimated 200 million people and it took Eurasia 200 years to recover lost population
7PGr TIL Slinkys were used in the Vietnam war as mobile radio antennas. They would sling the Slinky over branches and extend the range of their radios