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TIL that Cambodia is one of the world's few elective monarchies along with Malaysia, the Vatican and the United Arab Emirates

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4kRj6 TIL For a restaurant scene late in the movie The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), director John Cassavetes invited a number of prominent Hollywood studio executives to play extras, but then deliberately removed all their faces from the final cut.
64EX TIL contrary to George C. Scott’s gravel-voiced portrayal, General Patton actually had a voice that was “high-pitched, nasal, irritating, and at times, it bordered on effeminate”.
g1ZL TIL it wasn’t until after Kennedy was assassinated that it was codified the Vice President would become President upon the death of the President. Beforehand it was just by long standing precedent.
5No9 TIL Keith Moon and John Entwistle once payed a hooker $100 to give Pete Townshend gonorrhea
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