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TIL that playwright Tom Stoppard helped rewrite much of the dialogue for "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"

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WkM09 TIL Kirsty MacColl, vocalist and female singer in "Fairytale of New York", died saving her son from an oncoming powerboat owned by a multimillionaire while vacationing in Cozumel, Mexico. The boat's driver escaped jail time by paying a fine of $90USD.
od98 TIL that Angkor used far greater amounts of stone than all the Egyptian pyramids combined, and occupied an area greater than Paris. Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, which used stone quarried from only 0.5 km (0.3 mi) away, the entire city of Angkor was built with stone quarried over 35km (22 mi) away
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