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TIL about The Public Universal Friend; a genderless American Quaker who preached in the late 1700s.

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LQk6P TIL Moe Howard of The Three Stooges once broke three ribs filming a pratfall. Dazed, he managed to pick himself up off the ground and slap Curly in the face before passing out. The footage ended up being used in the finished short.
neEG7 TIL then-candidate Richard Nixon sabotaged a peace deal that would have ended the Vietnam War because he thought an end to the war would have turned the 1968 election in favor of Democrat Hubert Humphrey.
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RAlj TIL that Osama Bin Laden cost United States taxpayers over $3 trillion dollars over the 15 years leading up to his death.
j6pya TIL the tension between Marlon Brando & director Frank Oz while filming The Score escalated to such a point that Brando refused to be on set if Oz was there. So co-star Robert De Niro ended up directing Brando with Oz stationed at a distance while he privately passed directorial messages to De Niro.