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TIL, on Sept 13, 2001 at the request of the Queen, the Star-Spangled Banner was played during the changing of the Buckingham Palace guard.

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rdpy TIL that while filming Dr. Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick tricked George C. Scott into acting more ridiculously than Scott wanted. He convinced Scott to do over the top practice takes, saying they’d never be used, to warm up. Kubrick used these takes and Scott swore never to work with Kubrick again.
1605D TIL: North Korea has their own video game consoles. One is the Moranbong, a mix between the Wii and a Kinect. However, it is in reality a Subor G80 from China. The promotional images were also copied from Nintendo and Microsoft. The games include Contra.
OoopR TIL: Chernobyl was closed in 2000, Japan has still most of the nuclear reactors in standby.
jNGZR TIL that counterintuitively, overall death rates DECREASED during both the Great Depression and the Great Recession. The main cause of this was a lack of motor vehicle accidents, but deaths from heart disease and infectious diseases also went down. Only suicide rates increased, and not by much.
D1vPD TIL about the Overton window, which defines what political ideas the mainstream sees as radical according to what they're used to, even if they are not in fact radical.