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TIL that Academy award-winner Bong Joon-ho made "Okja"(2017) after watching Sergio Arguello’s “La Parka” (“The Reaper”), a film about a slaughterhouse worker who spent 25 years killing bulls, and Nikolaus Geyrhalter's “Our Daily Bread,” a film about EU factory-farming.

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pYe7O TIL when the now widely celebrated sitcom Fawlty Towers was first aired, it received a negative review from critic Richard Ingrams. The show’s creator John Cleese got revenge by naming one of the characters who is caught with a blow up sex doll after Ingrams.
R5pL6 Til man has used herding dogs since the Neolithic age over 10 thousand years ago
r6jy TIL there is a real meteor in the movie JAWS.
98pD TIL In the 1960s, the big tubs of Green Army Men toys used to come with Japanese soldiers that were made out of yellow plastic.
gnX TIL - No matter what language it was translated in, Robin Hood: Men in Tights made fun of Kevin Costner