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TIL Jackie Chan and his stunt team are blacklisted by all insurance companies so he has to pay himself whenever somebody in his movies get hurt

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OpP4 TIL There was a Confederate ship that circumnavigated the world attacking Union merchant ships. It did not have a single war causality and eventually surrendered in Liverpool, England after the Civil War ended
VPn8 TIL of Setsuo Ishino a Kamikaze pilot who slammed his aircraft into the U.S.S Missouri during W.W.2. During the clean up the ships crew recovered his body, sewed a Japanese Flag to be used as a casket and gave the 19 year old pilot a burial at sea with full military honors.
4XXKN TIL that Gavroche from Les Miserables, is a son of the Thenardiers
04ej TIL “chickadee-dee-dee” is a predator alarm; the more “dee"s, the higher the alert level
yLNX TIL movie studios hire a man w/a computer program that will predict a movie’s box office. According to his algorithm, actors make no real difference in earnings EXCEPT Will Smith, Johnny Depp, and Brad Pitt who all improve box office numbers.