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TIL that a common complaint among test audiences for Good Night and Good Luck was that the actor playing Joseph McCarthy was too over the top, not realizing the film used actual archival footage of McCarthy himself

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O4Vg TIL that for hundreds of years, “Computer” was a job title for a person who did math problems all day.
mmlp TIL in 2007, the Israeli Ambassador to El Salvador was recalled after being found outside the Embassy drunk, hands tied, wearing only a corset bondage gear, and with a cucumber inserted into his rectum. The police only discovered his identity after removing the ball gag from his mouth.
gMZG8 TIL: to make the Cannibal Holocaust movie appear as the recovered footage of missing documentarians, director Ruggero Deodato had some actors sign contracts that disallowed them to appear in media for 1 year after the film's release. Because of this, he was later charged with making a snuff film.
wo8wJ TIL crocodiles can gallop like a horse
1alor TIL I learned about RAS Syndrome — "Redundant Acronym Syndrome". It's when someone repeats a word used in an acronym/initialism, like "ATM machine", "PIN number", "RAS Syndrome", or "TIL I learned".