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TIL the Twinkies Woody Harrelson eats in the movie Zombieland were fake, because Harrelson is a vegan

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lo8dr TIL when "Battlefield Earth" won the Razzie Award for Worst Movie of the Decade, screenwriter J.D. Shapiro accepted in person saying: "No one sets out to make a train wreck. Actually, comparing it to a train wreck isn’t really fair to train wrecks, because people actually want to watch those."
QDXp TIL in 1740, a 16-Year-Old English Boy, having been convicted of rape and murder, was hanged by the neck for 20 minutes. After being cut down, his body was sent to be dissected when he began to show signs of life. After making a full recovery, his sentence was commuted to exile.
OWQY TIL That in 1957, South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond spoke for a record 24 hours 18 minutes to filibuster the passage of a civil rights bill. He took steam baths daily to dehydrate his body so he would not have to stop speaking to use the bathroom.
R5odw TIL Of the Filthy Thirteen, the paratroopers who were the basis for The Dirty Dozen and behaved just like them. On D-Day they jumped five miles behind the lines, blew up 2 German supply line bridges and held a 3rd bridge for 5 day until relieved. They were also pivotal in the Battle of the Bulge.
YpvWv TIL there is a small area of Upstate New York that is actually east of Vermont, outside the town of Whitehall, New York in Washington County. The boundary is the Poultney River, with Vermont on the west side, and New York on the east.