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TIL Lloyd Kaufman (founder of Troma Entertainment), has a cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy and was mentor to James Gunn.

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Pr5n TIL: The UN Security Council in New York displays a copy of one of the first recorded peace treaties, the Egyptian-Hittite Treaty
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kMA1 TIL that because Jon Ronson wrote a book about the dangers of online shaming that took a sympathetic stance towards the victims, he was targeted and shamed by an online mob.
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