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TIL that when the NFL football team Seattle Seahawks invited a retired 4 star general to their facility, Seattles head coach Pete Carroll blitzed him with questions about whether the 9/11 attacks “had been planned or faked” by the government.

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0w7AL TIL In REC, most of the firefighters, the main charactee reporter, as well as the residents were not professional actors and were just told to respond to the situation as if it was real life, and many scenes were done in 1 take without cuts.
aw0xA TIL Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived 2 atomic bomb blasts. He was in Hiroshima on a business trip when the first bomb was dropped. He then returned to his home in Nagasaki. As he was explaining to his boss what happened, the second bomb was dropped. He was within 2 miles of ground zero both times.
R7PL1 TIL that the slang 'buck' for currency originated from the fact that deer skins were traded for goods in colonial America before the dollar existed and was the 'currency' of the period.
Y77YZ TIL that in 2002, Studio Ghibli sent a Samurai sword with the message "No cuts" to the Miramax chairman, who wanted to edit Princess Mononoke from 135 down to 90 minutes for the American release
rKky TIL when executives first saw “A Charlie Brown Christmas” they said, “‘We’ll play it once and that will be all. Good try.” One of the animators stood up in the back of the room—he had had a couple of drinks—and he said, ‘It’s going to run for a hundred years,’ and then fell down.