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TIL that Christopher Walken Used To Work As A Lion Tamer

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7NAM TIL That A Woman Successfully Sued The NYC Transit Authority For $9,900,000 After Laying On The Subway Tracks And Getting Hit By A Train
VmyZ TIL That in World War I, the Germans tried to use a picture of Quentin Roosevelt’s body as propoganda to increase moral. This backfired, as soldiers wondered why the sons of American Presidents were fighting and dying at the front, while the Kaiser’s sons were not.
Rn96 TIL More than a decade later, Techno Viking took the original uploader to court.
0dvmv TIL the director of Captain Phillips didn't allow Tom Hanks and Actors playing somali pirates to meet before filming the movie, so that the pirates can terroize Tom and his crew and create a realistic tension and hostility between them.
XWkk TIL allegations of Walt Disney being anti-semetic are unfounded, as he regularly donated to Jewish charities, employed a large amount of Jewish employees, and none of his employees‍ ever accused him of making anti-semetic slurs