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TIL there is an Indian shot-for-shot remake of 24

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v18Ax TIL in the movie Full Metal Jacket, the actor that played Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermey) came up with 150 pages of insults on his own. Also the actor that originally was playing the role couldn't yell more than 30 minutes, but when Ermey stepped in and took over, his energy never let up.
nepld TIL that 20 years before the first woman was democratically elected in 1980 as president of a country (namedly Iceland), stateswoman Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) was elected as prime minister, when she led her party to victory at the 1960 general election.
Z8ZD4 TIL Cinderella is not the real name of the protagonist, instead it was an insulting nickname given to her. she was forced to sleep in the ashes and because of that she was always covered in dust and dirt
NwKP TIL that Stalin, sent an expedition to open Timur (Tamerlane) Kahn’s tomb, which had an inscription that read, ““Whoever disturbs my tomb will unleash an invader more terrible than I,” and two days later Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, the largest and most brutal invasion of WWII.
v15Q4 TIL some people think in images and some think in words.