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TIL Kevin Smith directed the music video to “Because I Got High” by Afroman

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ADxwl TIL that pigs can't look up at the sky from a standing position
KOagw TIL about the Windscale Fire in the UK back in 1957 in which the first civilian Nuclear Power Station built caught on fire causing which eventually resulted in 240 deaths from radiation poisoning.
W8rY TIL Gardiners Island in New York is one of the United States’ largest private islands, has been owned by the Gardiner family for almost 400 years, and was granted to them by the King of England. It also has New York State’s oldest building on it, built in 1639.
4XVEN TIL that the scene with Morgan Freeman throwing a baseball in ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ took over nine hours to shoot. Freeman didn’t complain once throughout the entire ordeal, showed up the next day with his arm in a sling, and continued shooting.
5Ylbk TIL Members are forbidden from eating and drinking in the British Parliamentary chambers with only one exception. The Chancellor of the Exchequer may have an alcoholic beverage while delivering the Budget statement.