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TIL Mel Brooks produced The Elephant Man & The Fly, he purposely left his name off out the advertisements so people didn’t think they were comedies.

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ng8G TIL Gambling for cash is illegal in Japan. Instead, balls won from games are exchanged for prizes or tokens. These items are then exchanged for cash at a place nominally separate from the parlor.
k4oe TIL a fireman in Thailand dressed up as Spiderman to coax a superhero-loving autistic boy from a window ledge.
M7R07 TIL - The US Army once gave a very passionate disadulation to cyclists who tried to make leisure bicycling in the Arlington National Cemetery legal. Partially due to cyclists refused to yield to funeral precessions.
neWKW TIL Jack Nicholson thought he was raised by a mother and a sister, but in reality they were his grandma and mother.
OGngX TIL one of the key factors in the Nazi Blitzkreig was the wide use of Pervitin, an over-the-counter methamphetamine, available in Germany. The drug allowed soldiers to go sleepless for up to three nights and "dulled feelings of empathy, hunger and thirst and reduced sensitivity to pain."