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TIL PETA waged war on Pokemon for virtual animal cruelty.
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TIL there is a species of weevil named after baseball player José Bautista
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TIL of the chariot race sequence in Ben-Hur (1959): the set was the largest ever built at the time and took over a year and thousands of workers to build; the director's son, a stuntman, almost died; the extras rioted on camera; and the cars filming the race were slower than the horses
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TIL that during the Cold War, the U.S. developed the Davy Crockett, a recoilless rifle that fired one of the smallest nuclear warheads ever made.
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TIL People with Blue eyes show the strongest association with alcohol dependency
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TIL that actress Jane Wyman - President Ronald Reagan's first wife - starred on the popular primetime soap opera Falcon Crest from 1981 to 1990 - nearly matching her ex-husband's presidency (1981-1989).