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TIL Trey Parker and Matt Stone originally wanted to remake the movie Armageddon entirely with puppets. After legal issues with the studios they made Team America instead.

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mxWDx TIL Between 2006 and 2007 Poland’s prime minister and president were identical twin brothers, making them the first brothers in history to hold a country’s prime ministership and presidency at the same time.
gMOL TIL the 2006 movie ‘Children of Men’ featured content depicting the London 2012 Olympic games
Veak TIL The Queen has the authority to declare war as well as to refuse to make peace with any country in the world.
aZk0 TIL that a mob from a nearby county threatened to lynch Black newspaper editor John Mitchell Jr. for writing an editorial condemning a lynching. Armed with two pistols, he then traveled to that same county to report on the lynching on-site.
x6VLB TIL of the 2000 year old Fayum mummy portraits that depicted deceased individuals in near realist style portraits.