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TIL Bindi Irwin had her $350,000 Dancing with the Stars prize money withheld because a Los Angeles Superior Court judge was requiring Irwin produce a form signed off by her father Steve. Steve Irwin had been dead for almost a decade.

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OGeZ1 TIL That Denzel Washington chose to cut an interracial kiss from his 1995 movie "Virtuosity" because he thought it would hurt the movie's box office.
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D1x0V TIL during the Tehran Conference, Stalin proposed over a dinner the execution of 50,000 to 100,000 German officers to prevent Germany from starting another war. Roosevelt, thinking Stalin was joking, said "49,000 would be enough." Churchill however was so enraged he stormed out of the room.
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