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TIL the original screenplay for Spielberg’s Lincoln biopic was 500 pages long. Rather than cut down the whole thing, he took the 160-page section about the 13th Amendment and made the film about that instead

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D1xLJ TIL That if you've ever worked for the CIA you are forbidden from ever working for the Peace Corps. There's only a 10 year ban if you worked for any of the other U.S. intelligence departments.
v18PD TIL that 36 million people live in Siberia
1aeWD TIL of the Battle of Ramree Island in which the Allies launched an attack to retake Ramree and its neighbour Cheduba Island. There were reports of Japanese soldiers being eaten by saltwater crocodiles.
7rARM TIL That in 1969, Freddie Mercury fitted David Bowie with a pair of boots in Kensington Market, years before either of them were properly famous.