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TIL Jeremy Clarkson was fired from "Top Gear" for punching a producer who told him the hotel kitchen was closed.

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m15bp TIL sine and cosine waves are actually a spiral in 3D. The 2D version is just a side view of the spiral.
EgOvw TIL Southerners opposed the casting of Englishwoman Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind. In anticipation of the backlash, producer David O. Selznick wrote a letter to Ed Sullivan, then an entertainment journalist, with a list of bullet points defending Leigh's casting.
a86w9 TIL Chicken Katsu was invented in the late 1800s by a Tokyo restaurant that wanted to offer a European-style meat cutlet to British businessmen
ep71n TIL There were almost two internets. Then, the CIA destroyed one.
EgQPW TIL that in 1941, American vessels of the Atlantic fleet fired hundreds of rounds on a light in the sky believing it to be a Japanese aircraft. It turned out to be the planet Venus.