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TIL That Henry Ford was an adamant anti-semite and Adolf Hitler's personal hero

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v1MP8 TIL that while filming 'Batman Begins' a drunk driver crashed into the Batmobile because he thought it was an alien spacecraft. "This poor drunken guy who didn’t have a license. [He] said he got so panicked when he saw the car that he thought aliens were landing," explained Christian Bale.
W7EGX TIL That companies AMD and Nvidia who are competitors, do not fabricate their own semiconductor chips, and actually hire the same company for fabrication, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.
d8rr8 TIL The Bee Gees were going to lip sync to a record in the local Gaumont cinema, but as they were running to the theatre, the fragile shellac 78-RPM record broke. The brothers had to sing live and received such a positive response from the audience that they decided to pursue a singing career.
ADApa TIL "Hocus Pocus" was released in July 1993 instead of October due to Disney not wanting it to compete against their other Halloween-themed film, "The Nightmare Before Christmas", which was due for release in October by Touchstone Pictures.
bmL0 TIL The movie MASH (1970) was the first Major Motion Picture to use the word Fuck.