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TIL that Stephen King has directed one film, the horrendously received Maximum Overdrive. King said he was “coked out of [his] mind all through its production, and [he] really didn’t know what [he] was doing” and that he never intended to direct a movie again.

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J184 TIL that a man who witnessed Lincoln’s assassination as a young boy lived long enough to be on a game show in 1956
NbLQ TIL that on the eve of the Nazi invasion of Russia, a German soldier deserted to the Soviets and told them they were going to be invaded the next day. His fate? Execution by Stalin for spreading misinformation.
5Yr9R TIL In 2012, the NOAA was forced to publish that Mermaids weren’t real. This was due to a Sci-Fi program on Animal Planet claiming that a Mermaid’s body had been found on a beach. Some believed it and contacted the NOAA, making them state: "No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found,".
4XXRJ TIL during the Apollo program, Cape Canaveral was renamed Cape Kennedy
lol95 TIL that the CIA was involved in the arrest of Nelson Mandela. They even believed him to be “the world’s most dangerous communist outside of the Soviet Union.”