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TIL FOIA requests reveal that the US Government has had a hand in the production of thousands of hours of entertainment in the last few decades including many feature films such as those in the Marvel franchise. They have insisted on edits to scripts which portray the government in a negative light.

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4AG5 TIL that a Russian scientist accidentally shot a proton beam through his own head with a large particle accelerator in 1978. Reportedly, he saw a flash “brighter than a thousand suns,” but did not feel any pain.
e0OB4 TIL the British used to call mainland Europe "The Continent." As more continental European tourists travel to England and the Americas, they push for a breakfast of pastry, fruit, and coffee they normally eat. That is why hotels serve a "Continental Breakfast." Also because it's cheap.
a8raL TIL of the Moriori genocide, a pacifist people of the Chatham Islands who were massacred and enslaved by New Zealand Maori in 1835 after being discovered by British Whalers in 1791
e0oZL TIL Bill Murray got so annoyed with producers on the set of 'Groundhog Day' that he hired a deaf Personal Assistant to handle all interactions with the studio, despite him nor anyone else knowing sign language.
X00LP TIL George E. Edmondson Jr., "Mr. Two Bits", was an unofficial cheerleader for the Florida Gators college football team. He led a traditional "Two Bits' cheer" at almost every Gator home game from 1949 until his retirement in 2008.