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TIL that audiences were so convinced that the film "The Battle of Algiers" was newsreel that the American distributors put a notice that "not one foot" of newsreel was used

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8aeyL TIL Babe Ruth was one of the first cancer patients to receive radiation and chemotherapy treatment simultaneously
RwE1 TIL Neo-Nazism has grown so popular in Mongolia that armed gangs in Nazi uniform often deface Chinese businesses and murder Korean/Chinese/LGBT folks “under the auspices” of both Adolf Hitler and Genghis Khan. They also run a Neo-Nazi/nationalist party called the Dayar Mongol.
p8ejp TIL that Deborah Sampson was the only woman to earn a full military pension for participating in the American Revolutionary War, in which she disguised herself as a man in-order to enlist.
oBEw7 TIL Marlon Brando was paid $3.7 million and an amazing 11.75% backend to play Jor-El, for 13 days work and less than 20 minutes onscreen. In comparison, Christopher Reeves earned $250,000 in the title role, dominating most of the 143-minute running time.
YEPG TIL “kappa” in kappamaki (cucumber sushi rolls) refers to child-sized, humanoid, reptilian monsters in Japanese folklore. As troublemakers their pranks range from looking up women’s kimonos to drowning people, but they are willing to befriend humans in exchange for gifts, especially cucumbers.