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TIL Tombstone, the 1993 movie about Wyatt Earp, had an actor in the cast named Wyatt Earp. He played Billy Claiborne

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8e6gP TIL that actor Gary Cooper was friends with Ernest Hemingway, and Hemingway based the main character of his novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls" on Cooper. When they later made a film out of the book, Cooper played the role that was based on him in the first place.
Bmeb TIL the Canadians had Japanese internment camps like the Americans
VB5ZG TIL: In the "Battle of the 300 Champions" between Sparta and Argos in 546 BC. Rather than wasting the lives of their armies, both agreed to use 300 men and sent the rest home. 2 Argives and 1 Spartan survived. The Argives left thinking they won, so technically the Spartan was the last man standing.
WZNN TIL: Three soviet engineers volunteered their lives at Chernobyl to release water from the broken reactor. Had they not done this, the resulting fallout would have covered most of Europe. All three men died within two weeks.
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