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TIL that “Scrubs” was shot in a real (former) hospital, which was used by a number of other productions until its demolition in 2011. Sometimes people would come into the Emergency Room set, thinking it was a real hospital.

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4xdJ TIL when the Nazis designated the Beer Hall Putsch site as “sacred” and made it compulsory for citizens to do the Nazi salute when passing-by, as a form of passive resistance, people would take a detour alley that is nicknamed “Shirker’s Lane”, bypassing the beer hall completely.
dr5r TIL that the Amazon River is both undammed and unbridged along its entire length
WKEd TIL a gasoline engine vehicle has 2,000+ moving parts compared to 18 moving parts in an electric vehicle
jb0Q TIL “Suicide is Painless” the M.A.S.H theme song, was written by the movie director’s 15 year old son and intended it to be “stupidest song ever written”, he has earned more than 1 million dollars while his dad only made 70K total.
emok TIL two British twins who were separated at birth and adopted by different parents ended up marrying each other without knowing they were siblings. Upon realizing they were twins, a British court annuled the marriage.