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TIL in the film Paddington, the writers wanted the CGI bear to use a cake fork for a gag, but director Paul King had to veto it because it'd cost another £10k to render the fork in CGI

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mvPR TIL Monsanto Managers discovered that fish submerged in a creek near one of their chemical facilities in Anniston, Alabama turned belly-up within 10 seconds, spurting blood and shedding skin as if dunked into boiling water. They told no one. They hid the pollution caused by PCBs for decades.
Wn49 TIL the man who directly killed the most people was Vasily Blokhin Stalin’s chief executionor. During the Katyn Massacre, he personally executed 7000 people.
N7OMb TIL there is a monument in Canada commemorating the 14th division of Hitler's SS.
GEDN TIL in 1806 Mary Bateman convinced hundreds of people her hen could predict the world’s end. Bateman sold protective wards for a shilling, but was exposed after a doctor caught her shoving handwritten eggs into her hen. Bateman then practiced medicine and was executed for poisoning her patients.
xJYD TIL a Nazi fighter pilot was ordered to shoot down a crippled American B-17, but instead escorted it out of the kill zone. After WWII, the two pilots met and became best friends until their death.