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TIL That behind the scenes of ALF, tensions were very high. Everyone hated being on the show much because ALF always had the best lines and there was always long shooting schedules because ALF the puppet was robotically moved. On the last day of filming, the cast quickly left without saying goodbye.

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VBvQk TIL in 1992 the UK secretly bought a number of Russian T-80 tanks for $5m each through a fictitious trading company for defense research & development purposes. The UK evaluated the tanks on its proving grounds & also sent one to the US where the Americans evaluated it at the Aberdeen Proving Ground
WkoQA TIL in World War I, deep fried potato batons were popular among American soldiers stationed in Belgian after they were served to the British for their love of chips. As, the language locally and of the Belgian Army at the time was French, they thought they were in France naming them ‘French fries’.
JEwB TIL that comedy film Airplane! is a direct parody of 1957 movie Zero Hour! Many scenes, situations, lines of dialogue, as well as the entire storyline, are redone almost verbatim
ZRbp TIL that the premise for the game GTA was stumbled upon by testers through a glitch during the creation of a game called Race'n'Chase. The glitch opened up the linear gameplay of Race'n'Chase to an open world with “non-stop crashing”. Developers abandoned Race'n'Chase and turned it into GTA.
DMKY TIL that Navy members undergoing submarine escape training must yell HO HO HO as they rise to the surface to avoid collapsing their lungs from pressure change