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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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0Wj1 TIL that Teddy Roosevelt’s son, Ted, was awarded the Medal of Honor for leading the first wave of US Soldiers attacking Utah Beach on D-Day. He volunteered for the assignment and had to walk with a cane due to WWI injuries and a heart condition. He was the oldest man in the first wave at age 56.
ADlKd TIL That two British twins who were separated at birth ending up marrying one another without realising that they were brother and sister
G4M1 TIL that Pat Sajak and Alex Trebek swapped places on Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune as an April Fool’s joke in 1997
w7m8 TIL that Thailand is the second most common place for American tourists to die abroad, after Mexico.
mxjox TIL in 2000, incumbent John Ashcroft lost to a dead man in the election for Missouri’s U.S. Senate seat