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TIL The Pentagon is not in Washington DC

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BwMb TIL that Godzilla was only seen for about 8 minutes in the 2014 film “Godzilla”
16wmX TIL the story of the film “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” was improvised in a meeting. After the Italian director had a meeting with American movie executives, they asked him what film he had in mind, and in the span of a couple minutes, they quickly improvised the whole entire story of the film.
wLedM TIL Chicagoan Corey Taylor was so frustrated with his Verizon cellphone service that he faked his own death to get out of his contract without paying $175.
Y791B TIL the Summer Olympic Games featured fine arts competitions from 1912 until 1948. Artists could compete in the categories of architecture, painting, sculpture, literature and music.
e0jkb TIL that the RUSH song "Red Barchetta" was based on a Sci Fi story of a near future where drivers of large, heavy and very crash worthy modern cars would hunt drivers of older, more fragile conventional cars and crash into them for sport and drive away unscathed.