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TIL Asbestos was used as fake snow in early Hollywood in films such as, “The Wizard of Oz”

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xVpy5 TIL that the writer of "Angel Voices, Ever Singing" banned it from being published with a tune by Arthur Sullivan of Gilbert & Sullivan
0WB5 TIL : While filming Robocop (1987), producers, in lieu of paying a rental fee to owners of the Pittsburgh steel mill featured in the film, donated $10,000 to a local Pittsburgh food bank
VOm0 TIL that Iceland’s electricity is produced entirely from renewable energy sources (hydroelectric 70% and geothermal 30%)
5Vr9 TIL of an American soldier who put up such a fight in captivity so well the Viet Cong executed him out of frustration. He was last heard singing “God Bless America”. He was later awarded the Medal of Honor
9YJp7 TIL of the Terrifying Operation Wandering Soul, where American forces would play eerie sounds of voices and mourning, causing the Viet Cong to think it was their dead ancestors and flee the battlefield.