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TIL the screenwriter of Alien (1979), Dan O'Bannon, credited his experiences with Crohn’s disease for inspiring the chest-busting scene.

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O90e TIL in 1868, samurai killed 11 French sailors. Over 30 samurai were ordered to commit suicide for the injustice; when the number was reduced to 20, the indignant samurai cut out their own intestines and flung them at the French. The sentence was then reduced to 11
awRVM TIL BBC has a kids show called “RastaMouse” where the main character- RastaMouse, is a Jamaican, crime-fighting, reggae music star
8aob TIL that there are about 500 feral dogs in the Moscow Metro, and some of them have figured out how to commute through it.
rR9g1 TIL that the ''I am Iron Man'' line from the first Iron Man movie is actually improvised. Downey Jr. blurted out the revelation to the surprise of Feige, who became excited by the choice and approved leaving it in before the cut to the end credits.
Ypk8P TIL junk mail destroys 100 million trees a year. The equivalent of deforesting all of Rocky Mountain National Park every four months.