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TIL that Milton Friedman served as an advisor to Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet did not criticize Pinochet's dictatorship at the time, nor the assassinations, illegal imprisonments, torture, or other atrocities that were well known by then.

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ZpXDp TIL Roger Ebert hated the 1994 movie "North" so much, it led to a book titled "I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie." Screenwriter Alan Zweibel claims people frequently quote Ebert's zero-star movie review to him and his son (who inspired North), and he keeps a copy of it in his wallet
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