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TIL during the filming of Gladiator, Oliver Reed (who played Proximo) died in a bar after challenging a group of sailors to a drinking contest. Some of his scenes had to be finished with CGI.

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RlN6 TIL Cuba offered to send 1,586 doctors and 26 tons of medicine for relief after Hurricane Katrina. The offer was rejected by the state department.
mxZeo TIL: Piggly Wiggly was the first true self-service grocery store. Before their founding in September 6, 1916, grocery stores did not allow their customers to gather their own goods. Instead, a customer would give a list of items to a clerk, who would then go through the store, gathering them.
LQVvm TIL about the Gardner museum heist, the biggest art theft in history, still unsolved and with a $10 million dollar reward for information leading to arrests and recovery of the stolen art.
GOJQ TIL of the “idiot plot”. The term was popularized by film critic Roger Ebert, who defines it as “[a]ny plot containing problems that would be solved instantly if all of the characters were not idiots”.
e0Om5 TIL of the secret bunker in Rothenstein, Germany where billionaires hide away in a crisis - luxury apartments, a swimming pool, movie theater, pub - all in an underground bunker designed to withstand a nuclear war... or pandemic.