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TIL that Sky ran the 1993 movie “Groundhog Day” 13 times consecutively for 24 hours on February 2nd to celebrate the annual Pennsylvania Groundhog Day holiday.

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8ebWX TIL that John Boorman submitted a script for a Lord of the Rings film, in which many things are changed & added such as Gimli is put in a hole & beaten so he can retrieve the password to Moria from his ancestral memory; Frodo & Galadriel have sex; Arwen is a teenaged spiritual guide, upon many other
pYynQ TIL about The Pegging Act of 1943 (South Africa) which laid down that Indians should not be granted the right to acquire or own property in the area reserved for the Whites for a period of three years. This was 5 years before the official Apartheid laws were passed.
P1knZ TIL In 1990, over 100,000 people visited San Luis Obispo during the Cal Poly Poly Royal event. A full scale riot broke out both in town and at the college when several thousand students and visitors began throwing bottles and rocks at police, flipping cars and various other destructive activities.
v1MP8 TIL that while filming 'Batman Begins' a drunk driver crashed into the Batmobile because he thought it was an alien spacecraft. "This poor drunken guy who didn’t have a license. [He] said he got so panicked when he saw the car that he thought aliens were landing," explained Christian Bale.
JVNk TIL in Soviet Russia There Were 2 Newspapers: Pravda, which means the “Truth” & Izvestia, which means the “News”. The Russians Joked, “There is no truth in the News, and there is no news in the Truth.”