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TIL Christopher walken’s attributes his distinctive speech cadence to growing up surrounded by non native English speakers whose pauses while searching for the right words influenced his way of speaking

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9w6Dm TIL a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit
9wQdG TIL that East Germany is believed to have made around 3.5B DM off West Germany by ransoming political prisoners
JeVm TIL the 1984 film, ‘Romancing the Stone’ was called a 'Raiders of the Lost Ark’ rip-off by TIME. The screenplay was actually written 5 years earlier by a Malibu waitress who died in a car crash shortly after the film’s release
JLyl TIL: In the 1800s, lead shot and cannonballs were made by dropping molten lead drops through a sieve from the top of a high tower into a vat of cold water.
D1w4e TIL actor Jack Gleeson, who played King Joffrey on Game of Thrones, said the scene he enjoyed the most after three seasons on the show, was when Joffrey’s corpse was lying on a plinth in the set with ceremonial stones covering his eyes, because he got to sleep for the whole day.