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TIL there are many cases of Canadians who find out they never had Canadian citizenship because they were born in a U.S. hospital.

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0wDdR TIL that the street scenes in Elf were actually filmed in the middle of New York City with REAL New Yorkers due to their small movie budget. Also, the funny line "You smell like beef and cheese; you don't smell like Santa" was completely off the cuff and unscripted.
GYAX1 Wagyu's fat has a melting point lower than the average human body temperature, it literally melts in your mouth.
1QEV TIL when Gene Wilder stabbed himself with a scalpel in “Young Frankenstein” it wasn’t in the script; he did it for real and kept going.
9YWV7 TIL that Tutankhamun’s successors tried to erase his name from history. This meant his memory was preserved as the location of his tomb was forgotten, hiding it from robbers. It remained virtually untouched for thousands of years until its discovery in 1922.
rg54 TIL that photographer Michal Huniewicz overrode his camera’s firmware to hide & not delete photos while he was in North Korea. He did this because guards & officials would take his camera from time to time & delete photos. This override allowed him to bring back these rare pictures of North Korea.