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TIL The Sopranos was denied a permit to film in a New Jersey state park by a county commissioner who called the show a “disgrace to Italians” and was later removed under corruption charges

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rRl01 TIL in 2004, Audi designed a fake car specifically for the Will Smith movie iRobot. This eventually inspired the birth of the Audi R8
wLR66 TIL about Viktor Belenko, the Soviet MiG pilot that in 1976 defected to the USA via Japan and stole a MiG-25 jet. The USA returned the jet a year later disassembled and categorized in boxes.
5EWk TIL that Will Smith owed $2.8 Million to the IRS and almost went bankrupt, just before he signed the contract for The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air
yDg8 TIL Museums make you happier and less lonely, studies find
MGZA TIL the US pressured India to make charas (hash) illegal in the 1980’s. The “war on drugs” was international.