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TIL: Isa Hayes, who was one of the marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima, played himself in the movie The Sands of Iwo Jima starring John Wayne.

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69Rpm TIL: That John Candy's father died of complications of heart disease at age 35 in 1955 when Candy was just five years old.
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oEdA TIL that English has 2 distinct P sounds: aspirated and unaspirated. If one holds one’s hand in front of one’s mouth and says “Pin” & “sPin”, one will feel a burst of air with “Pin” but not “sPin.” In languages like Korean, these are totally different sounds/letters that can change a word’s meaning
l7p01 TIL that Spiderman 2: Enter Electro was supposed to release on September 18th, 2001, but several references to 9/11, such as the games final stage being on top of the World Trade Center, had to be completely redone