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TIL Roald Dahl was a fighter pilot in WWII

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xj81 TIL there is a cup of coffee in every scene of the movie Fight Club.
KYd8J TIL about a 16 year old art student who lost most of her fingers when she plunged her hands into a bucket of plaster until it set. The heat of the chemical reaction caused terrible burns when fellow students and teachers failed to remove the plaster with a hammer. The school was fined only £20,000.
aw6jM TIL that Tristan da Cunha, a British island in the Atlantic 2400 km away from the nearest continent, is a commune, where all land is communally owned and cattle numbers are restricted to discourage wealth accumulation.
R5lea TIL in this scene from the film version of In Cold Blood, the tears streaming down Robert Blake's face from the the reflection of the rain on the window was unplanned.
awMJy TIL that Nero didn't play a fiddle while Rome burned in 64 A.D., bowed string instruments wouldn't appear in Europe for another 800 years. However several sources place Nero on the roof of his palace during the fire, dressed in stage garb and singing from the Greek epic “The Sack of Ilium.”