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TIL that Queen Elizabeth has met 12 US Presidents
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TIL of Ba'al Pe'or- An idol mentioned in Talmudic texts, in which to worship it, you defecated on it.
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TIL the 1998 film "Your Friends & Neighbors" is the first film to be reviewed on Rotten Tomatoes.
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TIL Time did not originally name a "Man of the Year" in 1941; Dumbo the elephant, whose film was released that year, was supposed to be "Mammal of the Year". Then Pearl Harbor happened and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was quickly anointed "Man of the Year" (for a record third time).
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TIL at one point in the Cultural Revolution in China, factories churned out 50 million Mao badges a month. So much aluminum was diverted to those badges that by 1969 Mao himself had to step in, demanding "give me back my airplanes."
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TIL that the reason Han Solo was frozen in carbonite in Empire is because George Lucas wasn’t sure if Harrison Ford would come back for the next film.