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TIL Raiders of the Lost Ark was originally going to have an elaborate fight scene between Indiana Jones and a master swordsman. But Harrison Ford was ill so they just had Indy pull out a gun and shoot him instead.

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kJYG7 TIL that the US Government Printing Office used "12 PM" to refer to midnight until 2008.
Yp1LP TIL that brake and tail lights are red because this colour has the highest wavelength in the colour spectrum making it visible in longer distances, even with fog.
VM0Gm TIL in 1830 George Wilson was convicted of robbing a postal carrier and sentenced to hang. He was pardoned by Andrew Jackson. He refused the pardon. The Supreme Court ruled that a pardon could not be forced on him. So they hanged him.
QmPM TIL that, despite box office records being broken every year, only one film in the 21st century so far has managed to sell more than 100 million tickets domestically - Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Y7XEd TIL that the Polish opera "Halka" was staged in Cazale, Haiti, to highlight the village's connection with Poland: Many of its inhabitants are descendents of the Polish legionnaires sent by Napoleon to put down the Haitian Revolution.