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TIL IMDB’s lowest ranked film is an Indian film called ‘Gunday’ which attained it’s rank because of a “downvote brigade” organized by a Bangladeshi nationalist group through the hashtag #GundayHumiliatedHistoryOfBangladesh

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b9bNZ TIL that the current primate of the Polish Orthodox Church, archbishop Sawa of Warsaw, worked as an informant for the Polish secret police, reporting fellow churchmen, and used his association with them to climb the church's ranks.
x66Ob TIL that Daniel Craig had to overcome his fear of heights to shoot the construction site scene in Casino Royale, which required him to climb a 200 foot (60 metre) crane.
J1RyB TIL that the first self-propelled vehicle was invented in 1769 by Nicolas Joseph Cugnot, a French engineer and mechanic who was also the first person ever to get into an auto accident.
OQge TIL our fingers and toes prune in water because of a response mechanism in our nervous system that has evolved to give us a better grip on wet or submerged objects.
1LZ7 TIL unlike most Buddhist monks, the Dalai Lama is a meat eater. In the 1960s, he tried being vegetarian for a bit but had to give it up after he got sick with hepatitis