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TIL the US occupied Iceland during WWII, after the British invaded (in order to prevent the Germans from doing the same)

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GY7xE TIL that Jaws had lots of production woes and was nicknamed "Flaws". When shooting the final scene of the film. The boat began to sink and in a panic, Spielberg told the crew to get the actors off the boat, to which the sound engineer replied: "F*ck the actors. Save the sound department!"
bXOE TIL China allows its state-owned tobacco company to sponsor elementary schools. In exchange, the company gets to subject children to pro-tobacco messages intended to cultivate young smokers.
QNDEa TIL that a film version of "It Can't Happen Here" was passed on for being "anti-facist".
pvyQ TIL That the Winklevoss twins in The Social Network were played by the same guy. His face was digitally grafted to his body doubles after each scene was filmed
Rmma TIL Microsoft helped save Apple by buying $150m of preferred Apple stock in 1997. They sold it in 2003 losing out on tens of billions of cash had they held onto it.