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TIL Heath Ledger passed away before completing ANY post-production ADR (voice overs) for Dark Knight - The film contains 100% pure onsite recordings.

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BrxXr TIL gay and trans people were widely accepted in India, until European colonists made them illegal.
xVd87 TIL: Brightline, the Florida based rail service that currently operates between Miami and West Palm Beach, is the nation's deadliest railroad with more than 40 people killed at rail crossings in the first two years of operation.
LkbXQ TIL that until 1999, Montana had rural highways without daytime speed limits
d8ZRE TIL of Taylor Guitars who purchased the last remaining liberty tree after it fell from Hurricane Floyd and made some 400 special edition guitars from the wood. They also raised 14 seedlings from the tree and donated a tree to each of the original 13 colonies and one to the White House.
awYGy TIL that in 1978, a Soviet scientist named Anatoli Bugorski stuck his head in a particle accelerator that sent a beam of protons traveling at nearly the speed of light straight through his head. He survived with half his face paralysed & deafness in one ear, completing his doctorate shortly after.