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TIL that Russia has “closed cities”, cities that have restrictions on visitors and are sometimes omitted from maps.

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rZxM TIL that after the Columbine High School massacre, Marilyn Manson trademarked his stage name so he could issue cease and desist orders to silence media who were wrongly blaming him for inspiring the killers
6rd7 TIL When an English police officer was stabbed he remarked “A scene from the film Hot Fuzz kept rolling through my mind. It was where policeman Simon Pegg gets stabbed and he says ‘It’s the most painful thing I’ve ever experienced.’- It literally is the most painful thing I’ve ever experienced.”
pYvmO TIL Dr. Lazarus' catchphrase, "By Grabthar's Hammer..." from Galaxy Quest (1999), was written as a temp line in the script. The plan was to replace "Grabthar" with something less comical, but the line stuck as the production crew started using it around their offices and had it printed on t-shirts.
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KLWw TIL the plastic used to make Legos is the same type of plastic used to make hard hats