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TIL Gary Oldman turned down Edward Scissorhands
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TIL: A guy volunteered to get imprisoned at Auschwitz in order to gather the first intelligence report on the camp. He then organized a resistance movement and informed the Western Allies of Nazi atrocities. He then escaped from the camp and took part in the Warsaw Uprising. Whoa.
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TIL Political Adverts are banned in UK. Parties are allowed an equal section of hours to broadcast. Preventing money out of politics [pdf]
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TIL the Wu-tang hit single ‘protect ya neck’ cost only $300 to record, they paid for it in quarters. To this day it’s made them millions
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TIL that J.M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, P. G. Wodehouse, G. K. Chesterton, A. A. Milne, and other notable literary figures played on the same cricket team. And they were terrible.
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TIL that the reason why 420 is associated with weed is because of some high schoolers in the 1970s. 4:20 pm was the perfect time to goof around and smoke weed. It’s right after school and before parents got home. It just ended up being code for smoking weed.