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TIL that in order to play different people stuntmen in John Wick started shooting with beards and long hair and slowly trimmed them during the production

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rRXLd TIL in 1941, with a lot of the Home Guard unarmed, Churchill wrote to the War Office that "every man must have a weapon of some sort, be it only a mace or a pike". The War Office took him literally and order 250,000 pikes, there was an uproar and none were ever issued.
e0rdb TIL In 1958 nuclear weapons were proposed as a tool for petroleum extraction. The plan was to detonate 100 nuclear bombs in the Alberta Oil Sands, thus adding heat and decreasing viscosity, the bitumen could then be easily pumped out. The project was put on hiatus due to risk of Soviet espionage.
YvDW TIL in a part of southern India there is a custom for children to kill their parents when they get too old or if they can’t afford to take care of them.
W4NA TIL Even without fossil fuels, we will exceed our 565 gigatonnes CO2e limit by 2030, all from raising animals.
0lGA TIL that in 2015, a husband and wife were the only two people left residing in Spencer Mountain, NC and they elected themselves to the town council via write in vote.