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TIL the Film Board of India blocked Saving Private Ryan citing violence. The Board demanded cuts that Spielberg declined, instead, he decided not to release the movie in India. The Home Minister of India saw the movie himself and, impressed, ordered it to be released uncut.

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OGa5L TIL that The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is the only film to get more than 10 Oscar nominations (11, to be precise) and won all.
8aZWG TIL about the 71 teenage students, who were stationed to protect a South Korean HQ, despite having no experience in war or even firing a gun. The SK army didn’t think the NK army would attack that HQ, but they did. Those students, still in their school uniforms, held back the NK army for 11 hours.
MenJB TIL in 1938, Charles A. Lindbergh received the Service Cross of the German Eagle, presented to him by Hermann Goering on behalf of Adolf Hitler. The medal was partially for his feats of flying but also for being an ardent proponent of Nazi Germany's military superiority and American isolationism.
DGXe TIL There is a prison in Columbia that allows inmates to be armed with knives, guns, and even grenades while allowing paramilitary training.
Egk10 TIL the small white flowers along roadsides in the UK is called Danish Scurvy Grass, a coastal plant that thrives in the central reservation due to winter road salt accumulation.