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TIL It only takes 13 people to run the Spam factory

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BkjL TIL Dwayne Johnson was set to star in a movie about Hawaiian warrior-king Kamehameha, but was pulled because he’s Samoan, with the producer saying, “It would be a great taboo for the part to go to a nationality that was a fierce enemy of the Hawaiians during that time.”
N7Zxe TIL about the Wow! Signal, "the strongest candidate for an alien radio transmission ever detected." It was buried by news of Elvis's death the following day.
YpMVP TIL Napoleon actually made it all the way the Moscow, and even captured the city. He thought this victory would force Russia to negotiate peace. But the retreating Russian army burned the city down rather than capitulate to Napoleon. Napoleon retreated back to France shortly after.
K5a9 TIL math dyslexia is a real, diagnosable condition called dyscalculia.
JYkYV TIL that Jamie Lee Curtis and her entire family were cut out of her father Tony Curtis's will. Jamie would later go on to star in Knives Out, where she plays a daughter who learns she had been cut out of her wealthy father's will.