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TIL that Stanley Kubrick was nominated as "Worst Director" for The Shining in the 1st Golden Raspberry Awards aka Razzies. The "award" ended up going to the director of Xanadu.

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womrW TIL in 1978 McDonald's gave away free razor blades with their breakfast
dD54Q TIL that there are large (>200 m length) tanker ships that are built and operated solely to transport orange juice.
wLB9o TIL Panama hats were never made in Panama and instead originated from Ecuador
O6pR TIL Nazi soldiers burned civilians alive in the town of Oradour-sur-Glane. Charles de Gaulle ordered that the ruins are not removed, and the empty town still exists as it was in June 1944.
Brvlx TIL the land in Manhattan Beach, CA was formerly sand dunes. During the 1920s and 1930s, some excess sand was sold & shipped to Waikiki, Hawaii, to convert their reef and rock beach into a sandy beach. The sand was also used to build the Los Angeles Coliseum and portions of the Pacific Coast Highway