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TIL The reason for the aliens in Indiana Jones 4 was George Lucas. Spielberg didn’t want “aliens or inter-dimensional beings.”

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Z8KGD TIL that Bill Gates released a swarm of (not infectious) mosquitoes at a TED Talk to demonstrate that even if malaria doesn’t infect people directly, they should still care
ANrZl TIL for the past 56 years there’s been a prisoner rodeo that takes in Angola, LA.
LQopp TIL that 75% of Canadian English-language TV shows are from the US. By contrast, the top ten TV shows in Quebec are all local productions. While French Canadians love watching American films dubbed in English, they prefer low-budget Quebec TV shows (téléromans) to big-budget American ones.
dD5kj TIL Al Capone, America’s most notorious gangster sponsored the charity that served up three hot meals a day to thousands of the unemployed—no questions asked.
J1L6B TIL there have only been 2 presidents in the history of the United States who were prosecutors prior to entering the Office: James Knox Polk (1845-1849) and William McKinley (1897-1901).