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TIL The human league: what separates us from other animals?

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gwM4 TIL That “Dogs Playing Poker” isn’t the title of the artwork. “A Friend In Need” is one of many pieces on a theme that Coolidge made.
X0OPE TIL about the Kyujo Incident that occurred on Aug 14, 1945 where several Japanese officers occupied the Japanese Imperial Palace in an attempted coup of the Emperor to prevent him from surrendering to the Allies. They murdered several people and when their plot failed, they committed suicide.
e0wgL TIL Steven Spielberg is responsible for the PG-13 rating. He suggested it after parents complained about the PG rating given to 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'. Three months later, 'Red Dawn' became the first release rated PG-13
yxJJ TIL Alfred Hitchcock once bet a prop man a week’s salary to spend the night chained up in a movie studio, giving him a beaker of brandy to get him through the night. It was laced with strong laxatives. The following morning, the film crew found the poor man crying in a puddle of his own feces.
bMQ4 TIL Daniel Radcliffe’s stuntdouble for the first 6 Harry Potter movies is paralyzed from an accident on set during the filming of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows….X-Post r/Wtf_facts