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TIL Dolphins give eachother names and even respond to them.
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TIL Harold and Kumar were written to go to Krispy Kreme, but after the company declined to be featured in the film, White Castle was selected instead. Happy about the free advertising, White Castle become the first fast food chain to have an R-Rated comedy advertised on fast food containers
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TIL John Williams subtly put the Imperial March into Anakin’s Theme from Episode I, foreshadowing his turn to the Dark Side.
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TIL secular Mohammad Mosaddegh was a democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran who was overthrown by the US CIA for nationalizing the Iranian oil industry. Iran has not known democracy since.
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TIL while in prison in 1932 Clyde Barrow (of Bonnie & Clyde) amputated two of his toes to avoid hard labor in the fields. Unbeknownst to him, his mother had petitioned for his release and he was released six days later.
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TIL of Adolf Topperwein, an exhibition shooter who in a 10 day period in 1907, shot 72,500 flying wooden blocks, missing only 9. His longest run without a miss: 14,500.