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TIL: in the Tarantino film, The Hateful Eight, actor Kurt Russel actually smashed a $40,000 antique guitar, rather than the prop.

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780YO TIL in 2012 the FBI uncovered an alQaeda linked plot which included triggering the Yellowstone supervolcano to erupt
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