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TIL: John Lovitz has had a long running feud with Andy Dick over Phil Hartmans death

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Okra TIL Adolf Hitler’s initial reaction to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, when he was first informed about it on the evening of 7 December at Führer Headquarters, was that he claimed “We can’t lose the war at all. We now have an ally which has never been conquered in 3,000 years”.
0wGKv TIL actor Jon Heder’s famous dance finale in the cultural phenomenon comedy movie "Napoleon Dynamite" was shot with a roll of about 10 minutes of film left. Heder danced three times, and the entire dance sequence in the final cut was taken from those. The film earned $46M from a budget of $400K.
m11gR TIL that the UK Royal National Lifeboat Institution, a charity operated by volunteers who risk their lives, and that receives no Govt funding, had running costs of £139M in 2020.
vPKor TIL that there's no such thing as a "tree" (phylogenetically)
lonLA TIL A man in India, Dashrath Manjhi carved a mountain for 22 yrs using a chisel and hammer and shortened the distance from 55km to 15km after his wife died in on the way to doctor !