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TIL that Ben Stiller is in talks to play Jack Torrance in a stage production of The Shining.

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58j9 TIL Captain Richard Antrim was captured in 1942 & held as a POW. During this time, he impressed with his engineering skills & helped the Japanese arrange trenches. From the air, the trenches spelled out “US”, warning bombers not to attack and that it was a POW camp, saving hundreds of lives.
Y7M87 TIL that in 2014, Scientists at UCLA published a study which demonstrated that muscle mass, independent of fat mass and cardiovascular and metabolic risk factors, was inversely associated with mortality risk in older adults
lomEB TIL Stalin loved Charlie Chaplin movies, and even cried at the last scene of City Lights, but he banned The Great Dictator from screening in the USSR. Stalin apparently was afraid that the image of the dictator Adenoid Hynkel would bring up an unwanted comparison – not to Hitler, but to himself.
ErZw TIL that Pabst Blue Ribbon’s marketing guy deliberately tricked a generation of hipsters into making PBR their ironic beer of choice.
g0g4 TIL the US Air Force accidentally dropped two atomic bombs 260x more powerful than Hiroshima on North Carolina but a low-voltage safety switch prevented disaster.