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TIL that Angelina Jolie, Nicholas Cage, Richard Dreyfuss, Lenny Kravitz, David Schwimmer, Jonathan Silverman, Corben Bernsen, Michael Klesic, and the lady who does the voice of Marge Simpson ALL went to the same High School.

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r6ew TIL of the acting agency “Amputees in Action,” which provides amputee actors to simulate gore and missing limbs in war movies like Saving Private Ryan.
GADm1 TIL in the small town of Norwood Ontario in 1957, some teenagers opened several fire hydrants simultaneously as a prank and caused the towns can-shaped water tower to be crushed inward like a tin can. It remained in use for 35 years and the town became infamous for its crushed water tower
d9wj TIL that wild almonds are poisonous. It’s only the ones we’ve been selectively breeding for centuries that we can eat.
woJ56 TIL that hundred of television shows and movies are canon to a show called St. Elsewhere. It started as a criticism of rigor around comics lore and has since evolved into a fan project.
1akL7 TIL that a unit of Donkey Power is a thing equalling 250 watts which is about a third of a Horse Power