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TIL Roughly 1/6 of the $6.9 million budget for the movie Dazed and Confused was used just to acquire the rights to many of the 70s music used in the film.

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VrOm TIL that the US Pentagon will fund Hollywood movies that portray the military in a positive light.
XEOg8 TIL Washington Redskins' owner Dan Snyder once cut down trees along the Potomac River so that he could see it from his house. The trees were located in a national park, and a ranger who raised concern about the issue was raided by US Marshals
AN5l TIL the phrase “raining cats and dogs” originated in seventeenth-century England. During heavy rainstorms, many homeless animals would drown and float down the streets, giving the appearance that it had actually rained cats and dogs.
XENJ8 TIL that the Icelandic government banned the stationing of black American soldiers in Iceland during the Cold War so as to "protect Icelandic women and preserve a homogenous national body". After pressure from the US military, the ban was eventually lifted in the late 1960s.
R5VG1 TIL Pasta in Italy has been around since at least the 14th century but has only been associated with tomatoes since the 19th century