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TIL At the London Film Festival showing of Sympathy for the Devil in 1968, director Jean-Luc Godard punched his producer in the face over changes to the film's ending. He showed his original cut under a bridge for free after the screening

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loppa TIL when all remaining California condors were captured to ensure their survival, they were de-loused. In doing so, conservationists killed all remaining individuals of a species of louse (Colpocephalum californici) that lived exclusively on the California condor, inadvertantly causing an extinction
rNonW TIL that a baby star called L1448 MM about 750 light years away blasts jets of water into space, described as the equivalent of about 100 million times the Amazon River’s flow every second.
rNrLo TIL 3000 real Kalashnikovs were bought from the Czech Republic for Lord of War (2005) because it was cheaper than buying props, they were later resold. They also had real tanks - the guy they got them from said "I need them back by December because I'm selling them to Libya"
ZmMY TIL that a 1920s anti-catholic mob, led by the Klan, became convinced the pope was on a train in Indiana. A corset salesman spent half an hour convincing the mob he wasn’t the pope in disguise.
P1Q4w TIL that the population of Ancient Rome was one million, and it would not be until the early 1800s in London that the population of a capital in Europe would reach one million again.